# traveling backwards to the old city for the first time in ages mysterious wild style graffiti seen on the walls at the train station fellow researcher dr. orloff almost completely serious for a second says: don't whizz it all away at sophisticated parties toned mecha insectoid dreaming through unknown virtually unpopulated northern nowhere towns that non consensual hallucination tagged home space as a big round timeless nothing but this single moment outside of time this entire trippy ride which happens in a single moment over countless billions of years all at once asian neon megacity time / all amerikan astral desert space not clear whether it's oh endland most ancient east or west of centre behind you or somehow still ahead yet neverquite to arrive going out late at / in / as neon tinted night sentient auto dispensing machines dotted around campus hand out free virtual pills acute electro meditation analogs for hypercorporate biosynths in heavy biopsychic power armor make researchers see and experience weird-cool events like for example jewelled elf transforming machine elves 16bit retro pixel deaders dried snakes kept too long in mom's psychotropic cookie jar satellite image of a regular researcher sitting at an obsolete / classic retro text input device sweating with mercurial thoughts running through ir system almost unable to put media bruised finger to plastic key yet at some point they do who begins to continue ir own sub project at great cost to ir ongoing existential outlook yet still despite being pseudo cathartic all this editing and compilation makes them feel a great strangulated glacial inertia and lethargy an agitated listlessness but then the great black iron magnet is now out here kneeling on one's chest sending one down into one's smart boots with a crippling dysfunctional metaphysical outlook combining ennui with twtm tedium was the medium all in a sophisticated post-modem manner most becoming of a modem big scientist // republic of bob