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One of Thomas Wågström’s pictures has been hanging on the wall above my desk for many years. The picture shows a black surface of water, the patterns and whorls in it, the ceaseless motion that here ...

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Spend time with a four-year-old and you will quickly learn that one way to guarantee shrieks of unstoppable laughter is to pretend not to see them sitting on the couch and then sit on top of them.