purposeless play – hashtag tashlan

chomolungma’s share

sukrat OTI — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:50:46 +0000

When I first read about Mallory and Irvine years ago — there was a plaque in a church to the latter, and I used to gaze at it as a child — I was fascinated and intrigued by the idea that two people could just vanish off the side of a mountain. The clouds came down, and when they disappeared, the climbers had disappeared too: a ghost story, really.

I’ve read enough about Everest since to get a sense of how unimagineably and breathtakingly vast it is: and now I think what strikes me, really, is that so little does actually vanish. Everything’s still there, of course; but the curious fact is that everything gets seen — it just doesn’t always get reported.

free time

sukrat OTI — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:43:32 +0000

do not read if you hate subjective maps of the unconscious

sukrat OTI — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:58:06 +0000

When I was tidying up my CV a few months ago, a colleague suggested that the “complete” version should list every piece I ever wrote, and every dream I ever logged. I do kind of like this idea — if only for its obnoxious self-absorbed uselessness — but it will take a little work to … Continue reading