Main work desk in front of a 1980s student desk surrounded by bookcases packed with nonfiction alphabetised by author or editor surname.

Short bookcases of fiction alphabetised by author surname from Peter Carey through J. M. Coetzee.

Swimming pool surrounded by trees seen through a rain-spattered window.

Trees beyond the ha-ha at the bottom of the garden and the lift shafts of the art deco building downslope to the north on a rainy morning.

Rainy Friday morning in #NorthJozi; one is locked down in the #LateImperialLibrary, engaged in a #CerebralRinse.

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Film still of Sigourney Weaver as con artist Max Conners / Angela Nardino / Ulga Yevanova in HEARTBREAKERS (2001), telling tobacco tycoon Gene Hackman's William B. Tensy, "That image will haunt me".

Cue #CerebralRinse . . . 🧠🚿

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk asking what 's that about Alt: GIF of Delroy Lindo from THE GOOD FIGHT, sitting at a desk, pointing to his right, asking, "What's that about?"

It is so crass and unsophisticated, one wonders about the mind(s) (sic) behind this inane, illiterate, but polluting time travel idiocy . . .

Cue #CerebralRinse for #MentalHygiene: 🧠🚿

View of white clouds in a blue sly above trees.

Burst of sunlight from behind grey and white clouds beyond the tree canopy.

White clouds with patches of blue sky and trees assuming their autumn colours.

Green growth on the verges of a suburban street.

Jeroboam smashed, one struts imperiously across Forest Town in #NorthJozi, back to the embrace of the #LateImperialLibrary: #CerebralRinse by constitutional flânerie . . .

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View of herb cuttings in water on a table covered with a white cloth; bookcases of fiction line the walls of Fiction Room A of the Late Imperial Library (volumes alphabetised by author surname from J.M. Coetzee through Michael Frayn can be seen on the shelves).

View bookcases of fiction lining the walls of Fiction Room A of the Late Imperial Library (volumes alphabetised by author surname from Margaret Atwood through A.S. Byatt can be seen on the shelves).

Bookcases of fiction line the walls of Fiction Room A of the Late Imperial Library (volumes alphabetised by author surname from Jeffrey Eugenides through James Hanley can be seen on the shelves).

Sofa covered in dark, patterned throws surrounded by bookcases of fiction alphabetised by author surname from Chico Buarque and John Buchan on the left, through A.S. Byatt and Maryse Condé facing the observer, to Jim Crace through E.L. Doctorow on the right.

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the scepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up […] and forget the cold outer world.
▫️Bertrand Russell 1930

End of week #CerebralRinse in the #LateImperialLibrary.

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Work desk in the study, with two Friesian cow print mugs of herbal tea at the end of a long day takingg a group of young people around the Constitution Hill complex in Johannesburg, site of South Africa's highest court, which was in session to hear arguments about the validity of a lower court's judgment on customary marriage recognition. A notebook and pen can be seen in the foreground; around it are other notebooks, dictionaries and thesauruses, a tablet, a printer, a CD, a DVD, stationery, a rotary pencil sharpener, various books (including a pile of volumes which have to be read for two panels at a book fair in late March), a framed photograph, and an external DVD player.

Two shelves of two bookcases.

Two shelves of two bookcases.

An upright student desk with a Yugoslavia made Olivetti Lettera typewriter, framed photos and postcards (one of "De Nachtwacht"), stationery, a desklamp, and cards with Ursula K. Le Guin's personal inscription to the account holder. Next to the desk is a bookcasenon which various volumes can be seen (including the JACT textbooks for Ancient Greek, some Luce Irigaray, Ilan Pappe, Orhan Pamuk, and some Derrick Jensen) and a soapstone box in the shape of Africa.

If human life is not to become dusty and uninteresting it is important to realise that there are things that have a value which is quite independent of utility.
▫️Bertrand Russell, 1949

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#CerebralRinse at night in the #NonFictionRoom of the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi.

Photograph of the work surface of an upright student desk, with an Italian branded Yugoslavian made portable typewriter, notepad and pen, a copy of Multatuli's "Max Havelaar", a red teapot, tea poured into a white cup resting on a saucer, various framed photographs and postcard sized prints, a desk lamp, a paper clip dispenser, a 1930s white glass vase, and volumes of non-fiction not yet alpbabetised by author or editor surname. A Paddington Bear money box, and a brick-block mug with Lego figurines attached to it can also be seen next to the desk lamp.

Thee in de namiddag in de #LateImperialLibrary #NonFictionRoom, herlezen over koffie. Zomer in #NorthJozi.

#CerebralRinse #LongDaysJourneyIntoNight

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