# with warm ginger hair and a tom baker scarf a delicate researcher on campus offers to buy you a soft drink one day a nearby experimental campus band plays diddily dah folk musique you're charmed and reply ok thanks to the drink but then some nonthing happens and now you can't find them oh here we go again instead you barely catch fractured glimpses of what appears to be the same person in a nonlinear series of other places and times throughout university only with different names and costumes eventually you find yourself playing in the same didddily volk bland they also play in the leader of the band does not appreciate your input which consists of walloping a cheap tin drum this practice quickly mutates into vain attempts to hold one's own to impress other researchers eventually you decide to bust out your internal 37 steap cheng man ching style tai chi chuan fa kung fu skills naturally this doesn't work either and they soon stroll off in politely impolite disinterest you now find yourself naked from waist down trying to unobtrusively stroll back through campus your hands over your junk large groups of rando ignorant strangers stare at you and they give each other this look like what the scene shifts as you now look though a large indie record collection which has grown to form the entire physical structure of the university everything's now made of endless piles of vinyl music records more than a mile deep in places in this dislocated space you sit alone feeling quietly depressed all you can think of is this humalien their ethereal forest beauty how quickly you discovered the plain unadorned fact you're a worthless block headed idiot with no style small duck and little future yet which if one thinks about it still means that even when put in negative terms one is still only thinking about their sad little elf wait a darn sec isn't that only actual job and possible operating mode of elf some inherently repetitive small potatoes mechanical memory machine // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]