# the professor's lighthouse standing alone on a grassy headland on a forgotten coast involves a theater made from a whale's ribcage senses of sweeping historical epics passion and poise for amateur dramatics in all their old timey jazz age glory a devotion to flamenco with references to arthurian legend and french literary theory really smart looking custom suits as though hand made in / from near retro future vienna becoming someone's ever maddeningly predictable informal life coach cocktails cocktails cocktails at breakfast and costumes at teatime louche bohemian artistry / complex romantic literary community comforting necessary illusions all round general sense of the entire fresh new world as a ripe peach for plucking fellow researcher henry swanson: in which tpl is only ever researcher swain's private delusionary ideological wish to be fabulously old worldly rich and /seen as cultured some supremely privileged yet oh so humble gentlemen idly watching a jeweled tortoise slowly crawling across a magic persian carpet in a grand private study filled to its tall ceiling with credible books full of hopelessly interesting knowledge and otherworldly treasure maps decidedly average dark academia tinged europarisian rat sensibility a pair of unused neo victorian steampunk retro tech eyewear in a long forgotten drawer // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]