He was a proper old-fashioned London geezer (cringe word, hate it, can't think of a better one, worst of all it's the correct word), kind of East Endy, kind of Real London, the kind you don't really meet but if you do it always feels like an uncanny immersive theatre experience. They're anachronistic. They only belong in the London collectively imagined by people who don't spend any time in it.

sorry i am texting like a slav

its good

like magnets

isaac newton

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:22:59

Rain, starting

i don't really want to be associated with that one for some reason

as in

plato

propensity within someone

"Put a blanket."

okay im going very rogue and very inarticulate

we need to be deconstructing our identities

this is possible in mazelike research sprints on the internet

there is a distinction between western-modern pedagogical systems that's like text-based as in a legal method but there is an idea of "pathshala" or "guru shissho"/ "porompora" i mean how masters relayed knowledge to the student by (oral) transmission often by memorising books. so what was taught was always interactive. knowledge was interactive, you spoke with people rather than read texts.

its performative

Above and behind a window opens and a cigarette hangs out.

ion

I'm trying to picture the scene inside, like I was trying to picture the scene in the tree.

is everyoneback on tumblr now

yeah

a lot of what i've been doing has been some imaginary screenshot or recording of his website, something that could be found within it

lol yea

i haven't read 100 book s so i'm probably not getting the depth of all of what you're saying

i want to do that too