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is no more. I think it might have been the big Dick Sale in the previous post that did it. The erstwhile 100% NZ-owned Paymex signed out with this letter: Hi simon, As at 1:45pm 17th September 2008 Paymex has unfortunately had to close it’s doors. Due to

Like all of nature, I have failed. – Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, p. 250 I wonder what I was thinking. Because whatever it was it has gone. Should I make an effort to reconstruct? Or make it new? I could return to my sources. There’s Olkowski’s Ruin

That’s how prophecies work … They’re not about what makes sense; they’re about what will be. – China Miéville, Un Lun Dun, Del Rey Books, NY, 2008, p. 105 – illustration by China Miéville

“Socialist commerce” was a contradiction in terms, just like “socialist philosophy.” The ancient trade that kept people and goods moving implied individual will, initiative, and intelligence. State commerce, on the other hand, since all businesses belonged to the state and operated on a strictly planned basis, required only bureaucracy, regular