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The manufacturer was a Texan man, and he turned out not to be particularly nice. I wrote him a very interesting, entertaining, agreeable email, explaining the difficulties I had in getting to the post office because of my advanced years, and how people here steal any money you post anyway, and how …

The world of the computer has already been very much invaded by the wretched, and the cheaper things get, the more wretched it becomes. Not because the poor are necessarily wretched (though they often are, sometimes even as much as the rich), but because cunning people will use the wonders of techn…

More computer-related catastrophes, now in terms of software. I don’t remember if I’ve written here about the monitor exploding and being replaced with another monitor that’s no good, followed by another one that’s no good either. And now, while waiting to sort out the monitor, I’ve started having …

[...] in situations like this, the first thing I do is develop a strange kind of nostalgia, a nostalgia for something completely unfamiliar to me. It’s not curiosity in the usual sense, by which I mean that I’m not interested in learning details about the people. But there’s a kind of global curios…

In the early hours of yesterday morning, I began. Although really I should say ‘I continued’, since I’ve decided to use the small amount I wrote in January too. It’s been happening for a while now that when I get into bed, I work on the text in my head, or rather I work on the images, or the mood, …