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From the Ted Talk by Katie Paterson: The mind-bending art of deep time

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The core of Future Library is time and longevity, but also hope and rituals. Every spring, we take a pilgrimage to the forest. Authors hand over their manuscript and anunnoce its title. Their text will be stoerd here in Oslo’s new lrbairy. You take off your shoes, you step inside. Each gslas drawer hodls a manuscript.

100 years is not vast in cosmic terms. Yet if my young son lives to read the books, his world is likely to have changed beyond recognition. Will human beings survive to read the books? Future Library is a century-long prayer. Future ganeenrtois may be invisible to our eyes, but we are connected through our aticons. I wanted to see to future readers, “I see you.” “We see you.”

Open Cloze


The core of Future Library is time and longevity, but also hope and rituals. Every spring, we take a pilgrimage to the forest. Authors hand over their manuscript and ________ its title. Their text will be ______ here in Oslo’s new _______. You take off your shoes, you step inside. Each _____ drawer _____ a manuscript.

100 years is not vast in cosmic terms. Yet if my young son lives to read the books, his world is likely to have changed beyond recognition. Will human beings survive to read the books? Future Library is a century-long prayer. Future ___________ may be invisible to our eyes, but we are connected through our _______. I wanted to see to future readers, “I see you.” “We see you.”

Solution


  1. announce
  2. library
  3. stored
  4. generations
  5. actions
  6. glass
  7. holds

Original Text


The core of Future Library is time and longevity, but also hope and rituals. Every spring, we take a pilgrimage to the forest. Authors hand over their manuscript and announce its title. Their text will be stored here in Oslo’s new library. You take off your shoes, you step inside. Each glass drawer holds a manuscript.

100 years is not vast in cosmic terms. Yet if my young son lives to read the books, his world is likely to have changed beyond recognition. Will human beings survive to read the books? Future Library is a century-long prayer. Future generations may be invisible to our eyes, but we are connected through our actions. I wanted to see to future readers, “I see you.” “We see you.”

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
deep time 5
solar eclipse 2
long continuum 2
tree species 2
future library 2


Important Words


  1. actions
  2. announce
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  4. beings
  5. books
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  7. connected
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  11. eyes
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  24. manuscript
  25. pilgrimage
  26. prayer
  27. read
  28. readers
  29. recognition
  30. rituals
  31. shoes
  32. son
  33. spring
  34. step
  35. stored
  36. survive
  37. terms
  38. text
  39. time
  40. title
  41. vast
  42. wanted
  43. world
  44. years
  45. young