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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Imogen Dewey

Five Great Reads: style at the cemetery, the ‘king of St Kilda’ and the truth about caffeine

A man holds a cat teddy bear bag during a gathering of sapeurs in Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo
A sapeur in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Singer Papa Wemba founded the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes (Sape) in the 1970s. Photograph: Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images

Good morning. I’ve been thinking about lust for life: the things we do to savour it, mark the passage of time. (Like reading our weekday Morning Mails and Afternoon Updates, you say? Yes, very much that.)

Today’s dispatch covers a range of ways we anchor ourselves in the moment – from morning rituals to lurid art to end-of-life conversations. Put your feet up, savour your coffee, read about them all.

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