# only last week 80s: turn on tune in drop out 90s: jack in jerk around log out near future retro 80s: cheap street vendor brought chrome plated smart plastic wraparound data shades wet speeding midnight neon megacity backstreets reflecting endlessly annoyed that nobody's in from this point on one's inner imaginary researcher progresses in bold leaps unwritten stories of this un civilization seem to exist in the early half of last week in what is now present day endland / malaiseia which credibly not only had politeness conquered but also inner space travel but this in turn established contact with many aliens from beyond one's backwater home island where citizens also enjoy advanced high fi sound systems their achievements in computer tech organic home cooking informal party conversation and picnic preparation feel vastly superior to anything researchers living around here boast today gradually researcher henry patches together a credibly detailed image of scene noting eating habits and fashion trends hopes and dreams even sanitary arrangements inside zero inertia sonic wall toilets the only question henry's unable to answer about this era is what happened how such advanced researchers disappeared overnight leaving only virtual traces today at 4pm sbt another wet sunless sunday morning with a blearly student hangover and no milk in the fridge for tea in which henry half believes the answer lies with a document the recently uncovered file under random issue unknown it tells of an attempted re invasion of endland by the partially alive this document while not the unusual open yet unwritten history of endland is littered with odd collective left field memory shards a few of which even tell of sudden intense burst of static researcher henry swanson: of what sorry // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]