the whole point was to keep secrets for their own sake. keeping a secret means challenging the whole world. all the tragedies that have ever befallen humanity were caused by loose lips; the only thing that’s kept the world intact is the existence of secret alliances, mysterious links between people or communities. nothing should be revealed, everything should be hidden, and there should be no such thing as “common knowledge”. at the end, at the very end, when all the little secrets come together, the world itself will become nothing but one big secret. and when the day comes for that big secret to be revealed, everything will at last be known.

a sourceless quote gracing the last leaf of my notebook,

a conspiracy that holds my beliefs, sustains them,

a resonating mantra for 2011.

happy new year!

there was so much more to the trip than these photos show.

ps. i don’t think i updated about this, but ten minutes 31 has been up for a while now.