# fellow researcher eric would throw an invisible pretend ball in the air catch it in a real paper bag in their other hand they'd watch this ball during its imaginary arc then secretly flick the paper bag as though the ball had landed in it while widely considered to be among the best of the group's ensemble pieces it's also near a perfect evocation of a dreary 1950's style afternoon in endland useless internal suburban biosynth ninja techniques developed over countless listless eons to counter terminal boredom experienced during such emotionally pale and existentially listless time blocks fellow researcher dr orloff was heavy student boozing last week and felt so ill and couldn't attend the talk as for us we thought we were going to puke up a cold plate of moldy spaghetti covered in old man's spittle and so remained in bed // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]