# time to hesitate as through no need to wallow in a mire of bioelectric blue data in which one often ends up here of an evening after searching campus for one's friends you dislike the place yet often find yourself pushing its heavy doors aside moping along to the bar and ordering multiple pints of musty northern beer sitting in a darkened corner rolling up loose shag cigarettes and playing pool all without passion without passion to consider first year students or firsties green forms who wade through various crap campus bars on their ultimate way to violetly useless nightclubs in the old town all dressed down in their new pink middling class finery they stroll in lemmings into bad nineties pop lousy rugs burpy beer and emotional yet casual sax invisible ultraviolet laser rays of monday mourning essay deadlines stream off them but the bees still know even in the early days of the second year they seem gullible sheet metal stamp impressionable to be taken seriously on their own terms yet they make others consider what's happening at this particular university based institutional nonplace what might occur next what could go far better later on down the thin neon blue data line you begin romantically viewing such minor urban micro adventures in fellow researchers as mythic remotely symbolic of some aggressively vague impossibly larger yet all too probable scientific project more fool you or rather no less foolish than usual // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]