# white audi with black wheels often witnessed tearing through one's tiny grim dull suburban village nowhere as though on exciting unplanned route to hi adventures in the great outdoors alison by slowdive now plays in the lab background in which well constructed vehicles of dynamic industrial precision engineering all too easily come to stand as symbolic or cool what researchers term existential high tech escapes from encroaching terminal boredom yet which in fact exist as status symbols or rather asocial symbols of stasis and unchecked environmental destruction // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]