m. to begin construction of this box, i will need to extract from you one (1) address for which electronic litter can be collected and disposed without much suspicion. once i have secured this, i can begin tinkering with the machine and a variety of humorous torches which will allow things to be dropped from a great height without the bottom caving way and the busts of music shattering before us.
to be still in lisbon sounds very fine. pessoa spent almost his entire life shuffling from from one shifty, beat up room to the next throughout the city, seeing little reason to go elsewhere. from thousands of fragments produced in this continual shift he became known as the four greatest portuguese poets of modern times. let this be a lesson to avoid hasty discards.
rather,
a.
to whom it may concern,
pessoa, the flâneur par excellence, was not alone in this opinion. johannes climacus was also a dedicated ambulist, a doll for battered suits, and, not coincidentally, the inventor of many mutually critical heteronyms.
in some things there are occluded mysteries. to-day, in names, there are not.
sincerely,
r.
