To One in the Dark V

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Wandering toward Conclusions
Wandering like a vagabundo: I like hats. Some time ago on receiving a commission for two years of work I designed a hat and had it made for me. It is a subtle and elegant vanity, charcoal and black. I was once told it [...]

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To One in the Dark IV

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Context: The Bowers of Halandri
For several days M had meetings in the center of Halandri, a suburb on the slopes above Athens. When we walked there we often detoured a few blocks off the main avenue, Pendelis, to skirt behind rows of high-rise cells, an abandoned [...]

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To One in the Dark III

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“To goddamned hell with maps!”
B. Traven, Treasure of the Sierra Madre (a paraphrase)
The cartographers of the Integral Province have never produced a foil of certainty or a certifiable map of any territory I have ever crossed. In fact, despite the claims that such a thing [...]

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To One in the Dark II

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Context: Rudy’s Direct Transmission
Rudy was rare; probably one of the last in the U.S. to die of general paresis, said to have been the death of Nietzsche. Once I knew another man who’s problems with a severed arm entailed him to share space in a veteran’s [...]

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To One in the Dark…

I accept commissions. I’ll stay on retainer and put as much of this Integral Province to the light as warranted by the time for which you have paid.
I rode in here almost three years ago and still find it a perfectly curious kind of midland. The inhabitants seem to be intelligent though a little bit [...]

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