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Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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An isolate losing hearing and sight in the twilight of this incarnation. Embracing ennui.
All the people I was kissing
some are here and some are missing
in the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
the creature that I always meant to be
▫️Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant, 1990
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Looking skywards from the lower slopes of Huriǂoaxa at the southern edge of Africa.

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November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Clearly the children of 2076 will study that letter the way one studied the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1986 . . . if there are still school history lessons, if there are still schools, if there are still children . . .
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Morning at the southern end of Africa on this imperial tour of the provinces.

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November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Overlooking Table Bay at the southern end of the continent.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Historically, there were even fewer facts. The Previous had all died out in the Something that Happened, a great disaster brought upon themselves by a reckless level of individuality, lawlessness and greed.
▫️Jasper Fforde, 2024

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November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Huriǂoaxa; though some people saw, and others still see, a table . . .

An uncomfortably humid day in the provinces at the southern end of the continent.

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November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Juggling schedules and managing the imperial diary to conduct 4 interviews each day next week . . . One is depleted. Time to unplug the computer and restore one's spirit to the usual imperiousness with some reading in the #LateImperialLibrary in rainy and stormy #NorthJozi . . .

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November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cold snap in #NorthJozi with jacarandas at the end of their bloom signalling the shift into summer; preparing for a last tour of the provinces; noblesse oblige, and coffee.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Mood.
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Full moon over #NorthJozi, 22h00 . . .

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November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Cue #CerebralRinse . . . 🧠🚿
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"But baby, it's [not even going to be] cold outside" (pace Frank Loesser, 1944); so, noblesse oblige, one shall go abroad to smile at babies and ask complete acquaintances, "So what is it you do?"

Morning in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi before a day of duty.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Further mood.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Mood.
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Lichaam, denk ik, als je mijn eigen lichaam bent

waar heb je me gevonden
waar breng je me heen
waar laat je me gaan

en wat is het in dat hoofd van mij
angst of verlangen, weerzien of afscheid
voor aarde, van aarde, naar aarde.
▫️Rutger Kopland, 2001
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is how ideology functions today: ideology tells the truth but creates conditions which guarantee that the truth itself will be perceived as a lie.
▫️Slavoj Žižek, 2023
November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Thus the day begins in #NorthJozi.

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November 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I am too old
to learn the names
of the new killers
This one here
looks tired and attractive
devoted, professorial
He looks a lot like me
when I was teaching
[…]
the hopelessly insane
▫️Leonard Cohen, 2006

Thus we begin November in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi.

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November 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Your Hair Is White
You Have Breasts
And A Gut
Over Your Belt
You Are No Longer A Boy,
Or Even A Man
But A Sense Of Gratitude
Enlivens Every Move
You Make
▫️Leonard Cohen, "A Life of Errands", BOOK OF LONGING (2006)

Friday night tea in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi.

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October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Memory is tied to a stake,
history silenced by firing squad.
[…]
Words are no longer enough to keep the wise alive,
[…]
Colonialists, coupists.
Who can tell one from the other
in these seas of crime and corruption?
Some of us have walked this road before.
▪️Lola Shoneyin, 2024
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It seems on the boards some people monopolise, there are cards dealt to almost everyone else from which they are exempted. To wallow in such immunity evidently encourages those thus privileged to be their best selves . . . 🤷🏾‍♂️
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Friday in the #LateImperialLibrary, on a chilly, damp spring morning in #NorthJozi.

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October 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Liberal power structures are anonymised rather than personal, they are spontaneous rather than planned, and the psychological attitudes that consolidate them breed selfishness and indifference […] Where power is dispersed, spontaneous and anonymised, it is even more difficult to fight.
Lea Ypi, 2024
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM