History

Past does not announce

but wants to be remembered

clad in its old clothes


(Memoir is history)

'The historian who came in from the chill': https://areomagazine.com/2020/07/19/the-historian-who-came-in-from-the-chill/

'The Life and Death of Hypatia of Alexandria', Sundial Magazine, January 2021

https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/curios/the-life-and-death-of-hypatia


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