Michael Traver

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Hello! I'm Michael. I ride bikes and climb mountains. I also program computers, often using Go.


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Florilegium (flori what?)


Below are two randomly chosen items from my personal florilegium, placed together.


Your task: Read these excerpts individually, together, and in different orders, keeping your mind open to new meaning that emerges as you do so. Refresh the page for a new selection.


  1. I have Rousseau sympathies, and I think well, you know, the fact that there's some food that none of us could actually cook in our own kitchens and it's orange and it's in a bag and it has, for some reason, a cheetah, on the outside of it and we all think it's delicious, indicates some grave rot at the center of our society.
  2. To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in any place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and the when in which you vanished.

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