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Broadway Tower

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Broadway Tower

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Broadway Tower is a recurring venue in the Collected Agenda archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between July 29, 2025 and July 29, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “underneath the Broadway Tower, built in 1759”. It most often appears alongside A Night of Sermons, Abigail Mlinar, age of individualism.

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  • Category: Venues
  • Mention count: 1
  • Issue count: 1
  • First seen: July 29, 2025
  • Last seen: July 29, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Walking Poems
July 29, 2025 · Original source
WHAT I DID Saturday, July 26 Sitting in a polo themed hotel bar abreast a ceramic bowl piled high with every variation of tesco mini croissants. The Lygon Arms Inn features long corridors and stone walls that give way to glass. Dark oak furniture and a courtyard and some heavy wood doors that open into quite modern and empty conference rooms. My father reads me stories from the guidebook. In 1380, a shepherd built a house that still stands. Next time, we will go to the part of England where all the Thomas Hardy stories took place. On my last day in the moors and the marshes, I walk ten miles and then run the last six as fast as I can. Make some calls. Clear my conscience. I cannot imagine, while I sprint for no reason, ever doing anything to betray my body or spirit again. I pause on the stump of a fallen beach tree to write this part down: PURITY OF BODY AND SPIRIT. Arrive at the hotel where we began a few days ago and they give me a key. Ahead of the pack, they laugh. I have to make a call, I say. In the Internet Room, I am soft spoken and nearly cautious. In the courtyard, I am wearing dirty clothes and making eye contact with strangers. The people here seem less grim than I’m accustomed to, which I suppose is to be expected from days of discipline and contentment. Robust outdoor strolls and ancient sights of worship. I will not destroy myself with sins like sloth anymore. It is very difficult to find anyone with a soul anymore, everyone was lamenting, underneath the Broadway Tower, built in 1759 and my father kept reminding me that it wasn’t that old, it really wasn’t so old in the comparative scheme of things. I know plenty of people with souls who still become incredibly didactic, my father was saying. Or something of that sort. Paraphrased a bit. The sentiment reminded me to be more gentle about it, anyways. I was being a bit contrarian for the sake of it, but trying to temper my will. Let me tell you about the age of individualism in the 80s as a reaction to the collective spirit of the 70s, my father was saying. Let me tell you about a return to tradition, I was declaring, walking too quickly, no one wanted to keep up. I wrote lots while I walked. I marched through windy fields and scribbled memories and sacraments into my phone. I was not uninterested in the view and the mist, but this is the only way in which I can really write anything at all; walking briskly and taking notes. Walking briskly and making promises. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Tuesday July 29 From 6pm - 8pm at BANK NYC — Qingyuan Deng and Lily Kwak present a public program extending the exhibition “To Save and To Destroy” into literary realms. Readings by Matilda Lin Berke, Paige K. Bradley, Fiona Alison Duncan, Sophia Giovannitti, Olivia Kan-Sperling, and Diana SeoHyung.
Inline links: BANK NYC, Qingyuan Deng, Lily Kwak

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