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	<title>nirgle.net</title>
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	<title>Incognito Volcano</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/mayon.php</link>
	<dc:date>2009-12-21T23:32:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	Damn, how intense my excitement has become over the last few days, waiting with bated breath for Mayon to explode. What better parallel in the natural world to my own personal fate than this relatively incognito volcano, this nobody of... 
	(123 words)]]>
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	<title>Bank Machine Triumph</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/triumph.php</link>
	<dc:date>2009-09-06T20:13:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	For a good time, I recommend bearing down on your local bank machine and plundering all the slips of paper that people have deposited into the garbage or left strewn about after their withdrawals. If you are stealthy enough about... 
	(166 words)]]>
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	<title>Time for Stories</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/stories.php</link>
	<dc:date>2009-08-05T00:56:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	When it is time to sleep, I abruptly lie down on my bed, on my back with my arms at my sides, then I close my eyes and fall asleep within seconds. None of this fussy arranging of pillows or... 
	(229 words)]]>
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	<title>Light Cones</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/lightcones.php</link>
	<dc:date>2009-06-02T20:52:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	As of today, my ever-expanding sphere of potential causality has grown to encompass 49 stars in the known galaxy, having now reached and extended beyond Mu Herculis. This is no small feat, and I have managed to accomplish most of... 
	(211 words)]]>
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	<title>Important</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/important.php</link>
	<dc:date>2009-03-14T20:08:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	I can't rid my mind of the filthy richness of my future. It's been there around the clock since September when a casual interest that seemed too good to be true turned out not to be. Having to expend energy... 
	(151 words)]]>
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	<title>Second Thoughts</title>
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	<dc:date>2008-12-06T02:53:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	Before you experience with your own eyes and ears the reality of any given situation, that situation is a dangerous thing to behold in your mind, too susceptible to the sculpting of your inner desires, too malleable under the weight... 
	(154 words)]]>
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	<title>Night Vision</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/nightvision.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-10-22T20:40:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	I don't like to reveal too much about my strategies, and it is certainly not my intent to divulge any national security secrets here, but I think you should know about this. Qui-Gon Jinn was on to something important when... 
	(725 words)]]>
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	<title>The Wingless Diver</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/winglessdiver.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-10-17T23:30:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	The south polar evening was dark and frozen. A blizzard hurled snow on its winds over a landscape of ice two thousand feet thick from surface to bottom. There were perhaps sixteen hours of darkness left before the next brief... 
	(504 words)]]>
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	<title>Devine Street</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/devine.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-09-16T00:30:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	Most impulsivities are destructive, but I have found others to be just plain healthy, like exploding out the front door and sprinting barefoot down the sidewalk till you run out of steam. A few kilometers later you are bent over,... 
	(192 words)]]>
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	<title>Bringing Down the House</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/house.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-09-15T06:05:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	Here's the thing. I thought I was letting it all hang out in relaxation, but it turns out I was standing in the centre of a large stage of some sort, eyes squinting under the floodlight of a thousand foreign... 
	(282 words)]]>
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	<title>Messenger</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/messenger.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-09-03T23:49:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	Is it bad to harbour a message that is murky and leaves a gloomy residue on your consciousness? In some shadowy corner of my mind I am aware of something I shouldn't be, but of course it is impossible to... 
	(147 words)]]>
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	<title>Trick Dealer</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/trickdealer.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-05-01T00:31:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	So let's say that tomorrow I am suddenly told that I am surplus to labour requirements at work and will soon be laid off. Or the site just can't afford to stay open any longer, due to higher operating costs,... 
	(768 words)]]>
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	<title>Gut Instinct</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/gutinstinct.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-04-01T01:35:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	I need to talk to you for a second. Over here, by the California pomegranate stand, we won't be bothered here. Listen, I'm concerned that the Large Hadron Collider is going to swallow up Europe and create a general feeling... 
	(181 words)]]>
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	<title>Bursts of Happiness</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/ectopic.php</link>
	<dc:date>2008-03-17T17:11:00-04:00</dc:date>
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	I was outbid on eBay last night at the last moment on an auction for a positive emotional response to an abstract experience. I was highest bidder for several hours to acquire this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and passed most of it... 
	(206 words)]]>
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	<title>Tenses Curve</title>
	<link>http://nirgle.net/curve.php</link>
	<dc:date>2007-12-10T03:38:39-04:00</dc:date>
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	The dreams, they're becoming more frequent, the ones about purity, of internal cleansing, of reaching higher levels of everything. This morning, I re-entered the scene during post-production of a Mastercard commercial. Not promoting the use of credit, but resisting it.... 
	(335 words)]]>
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