# wonderful cooking smells last night before going to bed a unique smell in the kitchen your aunt's house in old londonium back in the day as though a mixture of cooked dead pig had been marinated in cane vinegar soy sauce chili and garlic in which one was transported back to certain kinds of feelings experienced whenever staying at auntie's place while mom worked at the local hospital all the visitors aunties had round all their non english conversations one often felt like a lonely and useless 5th wheel an awkward fly on the wall who senses they're far outside the complex ongoing social proceedings swirling around them today it feels like the first true day of spring way the sun moved behind cotton candy clouds brings to mind an effortlessly futuristic hyperreal book once found in a local mobile lending library a book of scientific rat experiments in which one could make weird cool stuff say melting colored candles onto a sheet of glass before plunging it into a large container of cold water thereby making future classic sokalled fractal infinity mountains of telius 7 // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]