...what is Bangkok?...more people inging anging...walked walked walked in naked Babylon...we are all mollusks the mind a portable dwelling we lug around ...people and their machines machines and their people eating machines machines eating...what did the world sound like before machines whirred twittered?...without stopping no speed...always the fear returns...what tethers me to?...there are drives there are viruses...17 episodes of 24 in Jose's chairless room…counting from one to death...sometimes I just want to disappear in...afraid grateful I am not extreme enough...the formless beckons...Spinoza died at 40 Bolaño 50 Woolf 60...Deleuze didn't travel Epicurus didn't travel Lars von Trier doesn't fly...books sex travel Bolaño says...how does one know if one is traveling backwards or for?...Proust traveled गौतम traveled Joyce traveled Faulkner traveled...the dream of blissfull x-lessness...fantasy has always been easier to believe than...the world is divided into those who have more food than they need and those who have less...searching for the unexchangeable in a world where everything is relentlessly exchanged...