After today's revelations at South Africa's judicial commission of inquiry into compromising developments in the country's criminal justice system, and allegations of how the anti-corruption prosecution office was itself corrupted by the actions of its chief, one's mood . . .

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And you will forgive me everything: Even that I am not young, And even that baseless slander, Like putrid smoke with a blessed flame, Has been fused forever with my name. ▫️Anna Akhmatova, 1925 Tuesday night in the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖💻🫖🗝🚪🪾🌳🌲🌍🌖

Today's #NorthJozi harvest of aguaymanto, uvilla or uchuva (physalis peruviana, or Cape gooseberry, goldenberry and Peruvian groundcherry) from the North Garden on the southern ramparts of the Witwatersrand's Westcliff just north of Johannesburg's city centre. 🫅🏾🪾🌴🌲🌳🌍☀️

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. ▫️Bertrand Russell, 1935 Late winter cornering in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🫖🗝🚪🪾🌍🌖

Monthly televised imperial address done, time to scrape the make-up off; one is Scion of the House of Fuller-Hallim, niet Huis van Oranje. Portrait of the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses on a wintry Sunday night in the #LateImperialLibrary, in case he is kidnapped. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🫖🗝🚪🪾🌍🌖

And when the guests have done I'll tidy up the room I'll turn the covers down and gazing at the moon will pray to go quite mad and live in long ago when you and I were one, so very long ago Pass the tea & sympathy for the good old days long gone . . . ▫️Janis Ian, 1975 Sunday, #LateImperialLibrary.

This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.

National Cinema Dictionary: S is for Spanish Cinema. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988). A screwball farce.

Hesitate in August. Be shy. Let your toes tremble in their sandals. ▫️Anne Sexton, 1975 Late winter in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi: this is the month of reshelving on sunny, windy days. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🗝🚪🪾🌳🌍☀️

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. ▫️Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 Money, power, natural and other resources, threat, war.

Cerebral hygiene is a matter of lexical vigilance (see Zoë Wicomb, 1990): late morning and early afternoon in the #LateImperialLibrary in wintry #NorthJozi. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖💻🫖🗝🚪🪾🌍☀️

1. These South African commissions of inquiry over the last decade reveal how postmillennial managerialism extends the habits of thought of colonial and apartheid 'baasskap' in the public service; seniority IS authority, regardless of competence, for so many educated professionals. Distressing.

She had not realized how very different people were, how differently they saw life. She felt as if she had looked up and suddenly seen a whole new planet hanging huge and populous right outside the window.

Hegemonic cartography, misread or misplaced atlases. Imagined communities refigured as reimagined territories: post-industrial postmodernism debased. One recalls a television drama scene . . .

The day that was, now to embrace the night that is. The conservatory on the ridge of the Witwatersrand in #NorthJozi, and in the words of Doris Lessing, winter in July. 🪾🌴🌳🌲🪹🌍☀️

Mood: "Paradise to Hell. Paradise to Hell. Come in, please."

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Just saw three clips from that politician's funeral in the hegemon, and the speeches (they are not eulogies or funerary orations of any sort) are really baffling. These people are not well by any definition or measure.

Taking refuge and comfort in the confines of the #LateImperialLibrary: it is only Tuesday, and only (already?) the end of July, but the year feels long and exhausting, and there's still the local government elections on 4 November. A dry white season indeed, Mr Serote. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🫖🗝🚪🪾🌍🌔

The Western Garden south of the ridge of the Witwatersrand north of the Johannesburg city centre: late winter in #NorthJozi. 🪾🌴🌳🌲🪹🌍☀️

Why would someone send a document on which they want to track editorial changes as a PDF, and why have they used templates in a 3 pages long essay? Why, Mary? Why?! Did they do the macarena for their higher degrees (plural!) in the humanities?

Share someone who looks stylish wearing STRIPES.

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Share someone who looks stylish wearing STRIPES.

Monday inductee into the #LateImperialLibrary. We went to get a cranberry loaf, but on 20% off Monday, we followed the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 4, verse 4. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🫖🗝🚪🪾🌍☀️

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Mood.

Three book sales, two cities: Sunday inductees into the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🫖🪾🪹🌳🌍☀️ (Two of those sales were duds, rather a lot of dead trees sacrificed for Paulinist self-help and televangelical denunciation.)

Is "the greatest privilege of my life" to UK politics what "world peace" is to beauty pageants? 🫪 Those ministerial resignation letters this past week read like exercises in bathos. 🥴