“I sat on a bench, with no other goal than to rise from it as intact as possible […]”

⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pg. 44.

“[…] then, long after the sun had risen and my playlist had ended (though the silence that follows Pène is a poetic testament to Pène),”

⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pp 33–34.

“No one has done this for them. The bubbles have organised themselves.

[…]

Motivational poster in tiny dynamic print, down one corner of the celestial calendar calculator display upon my phone:

“Tomorrow will be 1m 4s shorter”.

(In dishonour of the fact that bluesky does an awful job of retaining no-autoplay preferences, reposting only the most vital frame of bsky.app/profile/ani-... ‘Michiya Kato shows how they animated the rippling hallway in Paprika (2006), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse’).

I know what you’re thinking.
You’re thinking
“Compelling Resonance,
is this a bit?”

That’s Ə
Compelling Resonance, to you.

“Not eɪ?”ke my hand, interact~
~make me exist

It’s a Gill song again
It’s the unsexiest Ruby Gill song
Quite possibly.
You’ve been drawn into it
You were n’t looking for this

Thinking through this account.*

‣ Aught but alt. I don’t want to have to fool** the so-called #AgeVerification complex repeatedly to set up multiple accounts.

Although this online #PerformanceArt piece (or whatever) has its themes and tones, follow-choices and interactions will transcend that.

Not to be all knitwear in the club, but we pronounce #bsky like a quaint little bikkie, yeah, like ΤΗΣΘDΨSSΣΨ*, like we’re summoning kittens with tidbits of treats over an enamel-mugged cuppa, right?

* “wgat did u say”; **
** “tes THDPSSSSPS 💜”
Yes to be intertextualising the ’blr in tyool’26.

Undulating on the shift key*, to dissuade them from presuming it’s a sub.

* Air on a…

An unholy -- nay, sacred! -- alliance of Gillard’s Misogyny Speech and the ol’ Star Ten Hash having declared that no unanswered call is registered. Thank you for asking.

DP:
Detail of John Henry Harvey’s ‘How strata are contorted’
c.1900–c.1920
State Library Victoria (H92.171/231)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/134323

Banner:
Mines Dept Vic, ‘Anticlinal fold in upper silurian strata, South Morang’ (detail)
March 1891!
SLV (H83.96/17)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/25278

“Because taking charge of your sexual health is one of the most radical, loving things you can do for yourself, your partner, and your community.”

Wi~ld to read this as part of a Federal Government campaign.*