have /i/ ever worn jeans? have i ever worn /jeans/? have i ever /worn/ jeans?
does the conceptual breakdown occur with the notion of jeans, the notion of me, or somehow more troubling than the fragmentation of my self, the fragmentation of the notion of /wearing/? have i ever /worn/ ANYTHING?
@netdoll i may not have the knowledge of this that you do but i /am/ a person perfectly willing to spend hours flipping through magazines in a language i can't read until something catches my eyes
@netdoll that's fascinating and i appreciate the knowledge you have of this
i guess some part of me is surprised that there weren't entire parallel gnu-like software movements in japan, but maybe the language barrier made it more practical to contribute to existing usa east/west coast software movements rather than start their own?
i genuinely believe that archive.org is the /last good website/ and the only website that still represents any of the early promise of the internet at all
@netdoll i think it was when i started really digging into APL however-many years ago that my investment in APL was something /distinctly/ different from nostalgia - the temporal + cultural difference wasn't some like inert depressive yearning but the opportunity for an out-of-body experience for looking at the present moment, and an opportunity to re-orient yourself with the help of that perspective
@netdoll i do have to work to try to channel positive emotions from these rather than like, desperation for a past where things felt full of possibility
Put you underneath the Earth's surface / Thought I told you bitches that I sleep with these demons that I worshipCause shit's deeper than the blood I'm submerged in / Black checkered floor with the red velvet curtain