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“I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.”
― Strangeland
― Strangeland

“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant”
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“Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King鈥檚 X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping up rubbish with a wide broom, drink cartons, cigarette packets with all the dust and filthy scraps of the day which he pushed towards an elegant long black glove that was lying there. I expected him to pick it up as I would have 鈥� I thought of picking it up, but was too late. He smothered it in a wide sweep. It seemed to me extraordinary and shocking that he had no feeling for it. Several images went through my mind, a symbolic hand, a dead blackbird, an ornamental bookmark fallen from a lectern Bible 鈥� any once-precious relic being tumbled in the dirt. As I went up the escalator I remembered the Tatterdemallion whom I haven鈥檛 seen for months and thought of his body, if he were to die in the tube, being tumbled about with the rest of the thrown-away rubbish.鈥� David Thomson, In Camden Town”
― In Camden Town
― In Camden Town

“When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.”
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“My happiness is at the bottom of a used tooth paste tube, it takes some effort to extract some.”
― running is flying intermittently
― running is flying intermittently

“I had taken an obsolete astronomical spectral gas tube home from the observatory for use as an ornament. Many years later I broke the specialized gas tube in the home. In the days afterwards I started experiencing sickness that I had been reporting to my doctor during working at the high altitude observatory. My notes state: During the last few days my bones are starting to ache again and nerves are twitching in my body and face like they were when I worked at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)...headaches...insomnia...zoning out...tired...forgetful...confusion. 5 days earlier I had been atop Kitt Peak mountain and 4 days later the sheriff disconnected my electricity.”
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“I consider myself fortunate that when I started to work full time with computers that X-Ray emitting cathode ray tube monitors had been replaced by flat panel LED monitors.”
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