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This file is essentially a placeholder. I trook a trip to Nymburk some weeks ago to read about Bohumil Hrabal in the library there. I was burned out, it's obvious in retrospect, as I am burned out now (on the anniversary of his birth as it happens, the 28th March, 2024). Hrabal, for various reasons now, tends to be something that calls me when I am burned out and angry with the state of the world right now. I suppose I hoped to have time to write something about it but there has been none. Neither have I regularly had time and energy to dedicate to the things I give a damn about, Hrabal being one.
There's a conference on him in the town coming up I intend to go to. If anybody gives a damn about any of that, they will let me know via email or irc or via some other reasonable channel. If they don't, I may get around to it someday. Or I might delete it. I may accept pull requests on the public .org files here if you want to write an actionable task relating to this file. This file and that trip, or the conference that will likely have taken place by the time anybody thinks to ask me about it, or, perhaps more tantalisingly, the text called An Abdication I got around to editing a couple of weeks ago after a year or so. Being about as far from the fucking Market in Ideas as a text could be, that is precisely the kind of thing I would be very glad for somebody to show some interest in.
But you got to want it or its pearls before fucking swine.. One person's genuine interest, not passing curiosity, means a lot in a world where - and let's be honest for once - for a decade and a half anyone whose mind has not been pwned and turned into little more than a packet router for memes in a message war can feel like a character in an Ionesco play or a Kafka novel.
Kafka was a realist.. If you still have a mind of your own, go to some effort to show yourselves.