# indeterminate flicker of flight numbers trembling on a public message screen large urban mass industrial scenarios when one holds too much carry on luggage that cheap hexagonal cup of sloppy bitter auto dispensed machine coffee tastes of unidentifiable brown sludge scraped from the bottom of virtual mississippi in which it occurs to researchers that existentially speaking this trip like so many anonymous others taken over equally desperate smeary years is a bad idea // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]