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Random Erasure and Discovery

May 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

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‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ is the string of words that I got from a spreadsheet I made this morning. I took ten sentences from a book and typed them into a spreadsheet. I devised a formula to randomly select one word from each sentence. With the resulting ten words, I used a random number generator to select the number of sequential words that I should grab from the arbitrary, nonsensical list. Four was the magic number, four contiguous words from ten. I purposely biased the experiment by choosing the sequential four that made some sense to me. ‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ was my reward for creating the word list in the first place.

Mountain walk erasure.
Post discovery.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brian turner, emily temple, photo, poetry, solmaz sharif, walkingcommentary

‘The Filthiness of Evil’

April 9, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pills you took today’ – In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, 1969.

I can’t tell you why I like this morning’s cloudscape so much. I just hope you like it too.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: john maynard smith, photo, rick evans, sir philip sidney, zager and evans

Naturist Caving Fear

April 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘It was in a cave near there that De Selby encountered St Augustine and surrealistic visions of eternity.’ or so I wrote last October of a cave in a cove where naturists liked to hang out. I’m not contending that De Selby or St Augustine were advocates let alone dedicated to meeting au naturel but far stranger things happened in The Dalkey Archive. By the way, the naturists I often encountered while walking the dog have recently moved around the head to the Vico Bathing place. In case you were curious.

193 seconds from January 2013 – De Selby could have seen this from White Rock.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: alan garner, booklink, flann o'brien, photo, robert macfarlane

Suez Carrier

April 4, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We turned on the TV this morning to hear that the Suez Canal backlog was cleared. After paying the normal $500,000 transit fee per ship, the 400 or so delayed vessels are all plying their trade again. And there, to illustrate the news story, was an aircraft carrier. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had also passed through the canal. And typing 400 reminds me that this is journal 400.

WKD backlight on Easter Sunday on Dun Laoghaire Pier
I might have put this in a chapbook on The Muglins.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, clive ponting, dag hammarskjöld, dwight d eisenhower, peter frankopan, photo, stephen graubeard, suez

No Way To Rome (Yet)

April 1, 2021 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

‘We should have walked to Buxton today. It should have been the first stage of the trip to Rome … We’ll do it same time next year .. it’ll be 18 daily hikes before we can catch the Dover ferry to cross to France. And then, well, then it’ll be a mere 96 daily hikes to get to dinner in Rome’ or so I wrote this day last year.

Flawed envelope design.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks, ManRom2021 Tagged With: an post, chapbook, photo, travel, walking

Breathing Free

March 27, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The grim news is that tuberculosis cases are up 25% in the first year of pandemic. This was predicted by people who could see how dangerous the diversion of resources to Covid-19 would be.

It was so obvious that I mentioned the risk of a rise in TB in a May journal last year. ‘The curse of tuberculosis is that it’s thought to be a disease of the poor’ I wrote.

Two years ago today when Brexit was a significant issue in my world.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, Covid-19, hilaire belloc, medecins sans frontieres, pandemic, photo, tuberculosis, wikipedia, world tb day

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