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Memories are fragmentary relics of trauma. Memories are stories we forge into identities. Memories are reliably unreliable (ask any illusionist).

So how do we remember who we think we are?

Welcome to Dark Chamber.

A monthly exploration of the magic and mystery of human recall.

A collection of cogitations on objects and contexts that have faded from human memory.

A newsletter designed to delight memoirists, magicians, and armchair historians who, like your host, are tickled by ghost detectors, sthenometers, spirit photography, and other contrivances invented to reveal the unseen—or teach us to see anew—like the Camera Obscura, or Dark Chamber.

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