# the republic of bob is already over to consider all ways in which it's long gone how everyone merely lives among the virtual ruins sticking up through the high desert dunes researcher henry swanson: big small surprise turns out there was no grander overarching plan afterall only an intensely temporary giant cardboard and duct tape diorama in a massive abandoned movie set with the sky merely painted on behind which there is only ever an endless infinite bioelectric void of consciousness big scientists are already / only ever wandering vast deserted information landscapes to consider modem spectacular reality as a massive prepackaged slow motion electric golf cart crash discharge in which a torn and frayed map without a territory was all there ever was broken megastructural smart concrete superhighways leading only to nowhere giant idiot stone heads of apparent heroes and elf appointed leaders of nothing half buried in the sand fragments of yesterday's samizdat newspapers talking about techno revolution and utopia abandoned memories swirling around one's feet in the empty backsreets and alleys of our times a fading warmth felt at dusk both beautiful sad and strange // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]