Waited in the cold in front of the research library before it opened, went inside, got the books, and then apparently almost immediately fell asleep, losing the whole (half) day. Almost certainly due to inadequate caffeination.
When performance is at issue, performance-enhancing substances should not be abandoned precipitously.
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"The poorer quarters, where the ragged people go." Places characterized by certain scents, which one picks up from the chairs and such during the day. A lesson in both humility and mental focus. These days are characterized by an almost militant approach to hygiene -- I identify with Platonov's travelling soviet teachers and leaders, trying to preserve the spirit against the filth of daily habits in the Central Asian steppes. A workmen, perhaps angry at the world, shaking out his workclothes right in front of me as I stepped out of the shower at the gym. Nothing from the outside can make one unclean. Though that's not necessarily the first reaction one has to such things.