Spend the years of learning squandering

Courage for the years of wandering

Through the world politely turning

From the loutishness of learning.

— Samuel Beckett, "Gnome"

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At the shop, I find myself pacing up and down the off-license, in that purgatory between one

customer at the till and another customer at the till. When they buy lemons I say ‘when life

gives you lemons’ and they laugh. I have a new joke everyday for them. They know my name

and they praise me for my genteel composure.

I argue with people who don’t exist when I pace in a hidden panic. I win the arguments and I

get no prize for it. I pay a price for it. I reinforce the warp-spasm in my soul.

When a customer juts out their loyalty card in an impossible attempt to scan it prior to my

pressing of the confirmation button, I feel annoyed. I make a conscious effort to let that

feeling pass, because I assume they mean well, and because they don’t deserve my scorn for

something so small and meaningless.

When I remember a memory of an uncomfortable conversation, I feel furious. I try to burn it

all down with a passionate rebuttal, where I force my will on the invisible other and destroy

them.

When I'm on my fifteen-minute-break I decide to set my timer for five, and I sit upright on

the chair with my feet planted flat on the ground and my right palm resting on my left palm,

both facing upwards, while I look at the ground at a ninety-five degree angle, as Professor

Piekarski taught us in RHE 330E 6-NONARGUMNTATV RHET IN ZEN.

I breathe and sit.

Thoughts come and go. Thoughts are like clouds. You can’t hold onto a cloud if you tried, nor

could you push a cloud away.

Clouds form when air containing water vapor cools to its dew point, causing the water vapor

to condense into tiny liquid droplets or ice crystals. This process requires condensation

nuclei, such as dust or smoke, for the water molecules to bond and form visible clouds.

Thoughts form through a combination of neural processes in the brain, influenced by sensory

experiences, emotions, and prior knowledge. They emerge as representations or models of the

world, created by the brain's complex network of neurons responding to internal and external

stimuli.

Impulse Retailing’s platform represents a complete operational ecosystem spanning

cloud-based POS terminals (Impulse Touch Cloud), centralised management systems

(Impulse Back Office), and mobile inventory applications (Impulse PDA). This integrated

approach serves diverse retail environments from convenience stores to fuel stations. The

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multi-tender payment processing, loyalty program integration, and real-time inventory

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patterns, and protect against loss.

The Sky is a pure and infinite ocean.

I don’t know where thoughts actually come from. They form and dissipate. The sheer volume

of thoughts that enter into my awareness in just five minutes is comparable only to the

rapidity of their disappearance.

When I search for the thinker, I find nothing.

The timer goes off.