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The Mnemonic Deep

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Memory is a thing we do together, a property of the world.

About Matthew Battles

Author of Library: an Unquiet History (Norton 2003) & Tree (Bloomsbury 2017), among other books. Editor of Arnoldia, a magazine about the nature of trees published at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum.

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