QUERY_INITIATED

Journal.

fragments of quiet intelligence

There is a manner in which certain things ask to be written, not so that they may be found, but because to exist in silence, for too long, eventually becomes insufficient. It is not urgency. It is something closer to a necessity that makes no noise, waiting patiently until it discovers the proper form. This archive was born in such a way.

Not as a diary. Not as a blog. Not as something that is updated merely for the sake of appearing alive. It is a place where certain thoughts come to rest, those which do not dissolve, those which return, those which insist with the silent obstinacy of things that truly belong to you...

Eclixar Journal

Every article is a scene. Every word, a frame of something that would not have remained, had it not

been written

From the archive.

politics, coffee and a headache
Power & Society

politics, coffee and a headache

third day of political television and I am beginning to understand why people flee into celebrity gossip. # I have heard the word `”government”` so many times in the last...

apparently we’re still a republic
Power & Society

apparently we’re still a republic

I checked this morning and italy was still physically present. reassuring. # Woke up, looked outside. Buildings still there. People still going to work. Trams functioning with their usual interpretation...

the government falls while I’m looking for my keys
Power & Society

the government falls while I’m looking for my keys

I lose my keys for five minutes and apparently Italy loses a government. productive evening all around. # I came upstairs after work, put my bag somewhere, couldn’t find my...

things you should not say on msn
Networks & Codes

things you should not say on msn

text removes tone and apparently also removes the tiny voice that tells people maybe don’t say that. # There should be a compulsory five second delay before certain MSN messages...

nobody is really offline
Networks & Codes

nobody is really offline

away doesn’t mean away, offline doesn’t always mean gone and apparently we have invented new ways to avoid one another. # Home. Shoes off. Feet alive but offended. Tonight somebody...

little hearts, diabetes and other tragedies
Affinity & Heart

little hearts, diabetes and other tragedies

I make fun of valentine’s day every year and every year I still spend forty minutes deciding what to wear. hypocrisy looks good in black. # Valentine’s Day. Again. The...

myspace stalking
Networks & Codes

myspace stalking

the internet has turned curiosity into a hobby with photographs and background music. # Everybody stalks everybody on MySpace and I refuse to believe otherwise. XD Don’t give me that...

some news doesn’t knock first
Questions & Musings

some news doesn’t knock first

sometimes the phone rings and the entire mood of a normal day changes before you’ve even understood the first sentence. # I had one of those evenings where I was...

saturday, technically
Body & Energy

saturday, technically

it is saturday according to the calendar. my face has not received the information. # I woke up tired, went to work tired, came upstairs tired and I am currently...

seven books later
Memory & Time

seven books later

I reorganised one shelf and somehow ended up sitting on the floor reading things I already own. productive. # I wanted to find one book. One. This is important because...

january: 5-
Memory & Time

january: 5-

thirty one days and somehow this month felt approximately ninety. # January gets a 5 minus. Not a complete failure because essencedemoi.com exists now and I’m ridiculously pleased with it,...

windows vista. let’s see how long this lasts.
Networks & Codes

windows vista. let’s see how long this lasts.

new windows means everybody will spend six months asking where microsoft moved the thing they already knew how to use. # Windows Vista is officially here and I have already...