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one sunset after another supermarket

one sunset after another supermarket

(but before that, another day:) . . . this one spent on the hunt for a simcard. . . in vain; that evening I ended up purchasing a Maya esim; a fraction of the cost for the same network, Zain, of Airalo, it seems more native to these parts. . . . . . keeping with the theme, I must
Simon Taylor 22 Oct 2025
Al Qasab & Ushaiquer  أشيقر وَ القصب

Al Qasab & Ushaiquer أشيقر وَ القصب

That Q gestures towards the loop symbol with the two dots above it, diaeresis, with which the same symbol with one dot, F, makes a glottal stop-like caught-in-your-throat hard K, with which the ك is not to be confused, the soft k; German friends joked only
Simon Taylor 20 Oct 2025
when I ceased explaining and started doing & a day & a night

when I ceased explaining and started doing & a day & a night

. . . the happy discovery of a local supermarket with fresh produce, served by a man with a sideways head, his head resting on his right shoulder (who, after that initial encounter, greets me warmly, the second time doing a dance like the dwarf in Twin Peaks), canned, bottled, 0.0 beer
Simon Taylor 19 Oct 2025
a day I overdid & other explanations

a day I overdid & other explanations

. . . cats, a theme of Türkiye too, here less the public deities they are there, but fed, loved, never possessed. I have so far seen one dog, and there was a dead dog on the drive out to Ushaiqer, أشيقر. . . note the loop with the diaeresis, a very unusual sound to
Simon Taylor 18 Oct 2025
At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

. . . it was Ethiopian, came in a small block of stone, cost noncompetitively @NZD5, but that was not all: this café, called Passion with a symbol for wheat, advertised itself as a bakery, we were hungry for breakfast bread (it might even have been the day I arrived, since I got
Simon Taylor 13 Oct 2025
explaining my circumstance

explaining my circumstance

. . .the King Abdullah Financial District, where the above is shot, with the collection of signature architectures, and before that the neighbourhood where I am at present, and before that Doha, the rain forest, and if you look there appears to be a bright-winged bird. . . then we did a tour
Simon Taylor 12 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

as I wrote in Minus Theatre workshop 8 this is to be a short report. Schematic even. Drawn from notes I have brought with me to Riyadh. * movement for primitive organisms, cilia and flagella, rolling, swimming— —is perception: single-celled organisms move in the outside world with the same parts
Simon Taylor 05 Oct 2025

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