i'm mostly absent,
my being is mostly absence.

living the world is 
spreading life so wide
that it is not intense 
enough to be real

but

to develop consciousness,
yes.

Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:42:22 +0300 (EET DST)
From: ta
To: jr
Subject: absent

i'm sorry for being absent,
humanitarian issues took 
time till almost one and i
didn't wanna rush then only
to arrive late there to come
back here to work.

would've been nice to meet
the people and finally even
see the studio itself, perhaps
feel music a little .. who
knows what would've happened!

but i guess i'll just have to
accept absence as a major
part of life, skipped also
sigchi.design.nl yesterday and
will have to miss everything
important going on in Finland
too. 

it is an opportunity to work,
like you said. live, even?