❍ gloom waif
dark rings around pale zeros
❍ gloom waif
dark rings around pale zeros
§36. On the colder mornings I wake up with lightly chapped lips and dryness at the corners of my eyes >>
Behind me in a cafe at a two-top an American man describes to his guest that he wants to be infatuated again---giving as an example his childhood love of dinosaurs.
Wednesday
(水)
12/11/24, 22:00
東京都世田谷区北沢
§36. On the colder mornings I wake up with lightly chapped lips and dryness at the corners of my eyes >>
Behind me in a cafe at a two-top an American man describes to his guest that he wants to be infatuated again---giving as an example his childhood love of dinosaurs.
§34. While I remember them poorly, the feeling that I've been having increasingly anxious dreams recently has intensified >>
Occasionally my siblings call me and talk about what's been going on in their lives, and very simplistically I don't have the heart to unload on them, which must be cruel.
Monday
(月)
11/11/24, 23:00
沖縄県国頭郡恩納村
§34. While I remember them poorly, the feeling that I've been having increasingly anxious dreams recently has intensified >>
Occasionally my siblings call me and talk about what's been going on in their lives, and very simplistically I don't have the heart to unload on them, which must be cruel.
Wednesday
(水)
10/09/24, 01:00
Oberwolfach, Germany
§33. Isle of the Dead >>
The Black Forest is a Spruce monoculture after centuries of logging.
§31. When the weather cools I watch movies and sulk >>
In which subdivisions alternately suggest and dissuade linear connection, and on the origin of the tendency in children to embrace postmodern affect before they even have the chance to know what it might mean to not.
Wednesday
(水)
09/25/24, 11:00
東京都世田谷区北沢
§31. When the weather cools I watch movies and sulk >>
In which subdivisions alternately suggest and dissuade linear connection, and on the origin of the tendency in children to embrace postmodern affect before they even have the chance to know what it might mean to not.
§30. At certain times of day the glass of adjacent buildings provides strange sunlight at improper angles. >>
I walk large circles from here to 渋谷 and back, watching as the trains move from elevated tracks to level crossing to underground. Narrow tall expensive homes tuck into steep lots carved from retaining walls.
Sunday
(日)
09/15/24, 09:00
東京都世田谷区北沢
§30. At certain times of day the glass of adjacent buildings provides strange sunlight at improper angles. >>
I walk large circles from here to 渋谷 and back, watching as the trains move from elevated tracks to level crossing to underground. Narrow tall expensive homes tuck into steep lots carved from retaining walls.
§29. Early September goads calamity, though arrives just when I've softened my appraisal of the previous year. >>
On a train I read the same book I was reading a year ago, though it is almost over, and the author is just as depressed, though now they've knit this with a Harvard lit-crit syllabus, and I'm scared to leave them.
Thursday
(木)
09/05/24, 14:00
東京都世田谷区北沢
§29. Early September goads calamity, though arrives just when I've softened my appraisal of the previous year. >>
On a train I read the same book I was reading a year ago, though it is almost over, and the author is just as depressed, though now they've knit this with a Harvard lit-crit syllabus, and I'm scared to leave them.
§28. The forecast says rain for five days >>
Once a creative writing professor wrote a note that the title I had chosen for my short story submission, 'Signs and Symbols' had already been used by Nabokov, as if I hadn't known, as if I hadn't intended. And while my choice was obnoxious and poor, his note still feels dumb.
Saturday
(土)
08/24/24, 09:00
東京都世田谷区北沢
§28. The forecast says rain for five days >>
Once a creative writing professor wrote a note that the title I had chosen for my short story submission, 'Signs and Symbols' had already been used by Nabokov, as if I hadn't known, as if I hadn't intended. And while my choice was obnoxious and poor, his note still feels dumb.
§25. Regular expressions and context-free grammars >>
The sort of hypobaric weather that makes you consider teaching elementary school in Austria.
Saturday
(土)
08/17/24, 09:00
東京都世田谷区下北沢
§25. Regular expressions and context-free grammars >>
The sort of hypobaric weather that makes you consider teaching elementary school in Austria.
Sunday
(日)
07/07/24, 23:00
Cambridge, MA
§22. Late hours >>
On consuming the pine needles, resins, and seeds necessary for 即身仏.
Saturday
(土)
06/29/24, 05:00
Cambridge, MA
§21. カフェ巡り >>
Heat has been bleeding out of the days, into my head.
§20. Exhumed journal entry >>
Like walking behind someone who's freshly showered but is smoking a cigarette, while a tangle of hunsuckles offgasses one block down.
Monday
(月)
10/02/23, 05:00
Los Angeles, CA
§20. Exhumed journal entry >>
Like walking behind someone who's freshly showered but is smoking a cigarette, while a tangle of hunsuckles offgasses one block down.
Saturday
(土)
04/08/23, 14:00
Cambridge, MA
§19. Doom. >>
The calyces fall to the firm ground from nude branches and skitter.
§11. Devoicing and lenition as entreaty >>
In 下北沢 there is a huge suspended inflatable moon that has been put up in partnership with the local railway; people take pictures with it, feigning holding it, pointing to it, smiling in front of it; they do this all evening.
Monday
(月)
09/19/22, 23:00
神奈川県厚木市
§11. Devoicing and lenition as entreaty >>
In 下北沢 there is a huge suspended inflatable moon that has been put up in partnership with the local railway; people take pictures with it, feigning holding it, pointing to it, smiling in front of it; they do this all evening.
§7. The knowing of your tense, aspect, and mood >>
He explained to me that the restaurant we were in, and which I would soon leave, having stayed only long enough to drink a small glass of coke with him and his childhood friend before catching the last train, had inspired Kill Bill, though was now mostly dead.
Sunday
(日)
09/04/22, 18:00
東京都港区西麻布
§7. The knowing of your tense, aspect, and mood >>
He explained to me that the restaurant we were in, and which I would soon leave, having stayed only long enough to drink a small glass of coke with him and his childhood friend before catching the last train, had inspired Kill Bill, though was now mostly dead.
終点だ。
終点だ。