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“What funny clothes you wear, dear Readers!” Logan Pearsall Smith sends a laugh across time to Posterity—and then steps into London’s streets with an umbrella, a latchkey, and the air of an explorer setting out into peril.

In this early-twentieth-century collection, the streets, drawing-rooms and buses of London become launchpads for unexpected thoughts. Smith watches human rituals as if he were an anthropologist studying a curious species: clothes hold his shifting selves together, a shop-window reveals a familiar ghost, and an hour-glass makes time seem almost tangible—until a neighbour’s bus is about to leave. His brief pieces turn everyday absurdities into comic, unsettling questions about identity, convention and the immense spaces of time and existence. What strange discoveries are hiding in the next ordinary moment?

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