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   Moray McConnachie on February 7, 2011 at 10:20 pm

   Michael (Katherine’s brother) used to live in a “former glories” part of south Chicago. Big, big houses built by rich industrialists, now surrounded by grim malls and tenements – each decorated with an individualised decay, and somehow rising above their diliapidation.

   I find industrial decay often moving, if not necessarily beautiful – we found a disused marble factory once in Italy, full of strange spaces and dead machines whose sense of lost purpose was very touching.

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   Tom on February 7, 2011 at 10:27 pm

   Michael gave us a brilliant guide to unusual things to see in Chicago, which I found on a scrap of Moleskine while clearing out my office (and kept: we enjoyed it that much). It sits alongside my notes for your wedding…

   Sometimes I like to understand that all our creations are not destined to exist in the future. Definitely worth knowing.

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   Moray McConnachie on February 7, 2011 at 10:38 pm

   One of the hazards of working so much with technology is that one works with something highly disposable. I would love to create something long-lived before I die. And I dont mean our publishing system which will have been running 10 years in March!

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   Tom on February 8, 2011 at 8:09 am

   A fair and commendable goal. Of things you have done other than your son, there is your poetry as a starter.

   New website looks good, too. Maybe it will last…

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   Moray McConnachie on February 8, 2011 at 10:03 am

   I’m really going to miss you – but I guess you’ll keep the blog positivity coming!