• The air was never quite clear anyway, because of the works, but this year it was thick and dry, like a fine material wrapped around my face and arms.

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  • Even these fine volumes, though, are overshadowed by the collection's 20th-century material, in particular the art books that grew out of Mr Gillet's friendship with Jean Hugues, a bookseller and gallery owner from Provence who knew many of the Surrealist poets and painters, and who opened a bookshop in the rue Jacob in Paris in 1952.

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  • So what we want to do is fine-tune that special characteristic of the light so it shines back and it doesn't absorb into the material and cause damage.

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