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David Goldblatt

The Periodic Table of a Feasible Utopia

by David Goldblatt

I’m not quite sure where the idea for the Periodic Table came from, but I put it down to lockdown madness. However, I know it had many elements. I first encountered it in an encyclopedia as a child. I remember the sheer design pleasure of its rows of coloured rectangles and its mysterious nomenclature. As a former chemistry student, I respect and wonder at its scientific and intellectual elegance. As a reader of Primo Levi’s Periodic Table...

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