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toby is reading in a park<\/strong><\/p>\n toby is reading in a park. he stands up half-heartedly, and decides to walk up the nearby hill. Toby Sharpe<\/strong>\u00a0has two degrees from the University of Edinburgh. He misses living in Montr\u00e9al, and currently calls London home. He is the co-founder of Project Myopia, a movement to diversify university curricula:\u00a0www.projectmyopia. toby is reading in a park toby is reading in a park. no, well – i guess he’s writing now. he left the holiday apartment because his friend wanted to meet a girl from tinder. tinder is like a menu for the bored. toby is lost. he knows he is in a park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16659,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16658\/revisions\/16659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nno, well – i guess he’s writing now.
\nhe left the holiday apartment because his friend wanted to meet a girl from tinder.
\ntinder is like a menu for the bored.
\ntoby is lost.
\nhe knows he is in a park in spain, but the other details are lacking.
\nhe walked here.
\nhe is sipping from an almost-empty can of lemon iced tea.
\nthe park smells of a flower, the name of which toby doesn’t know.
\nhe lists the words for flowers out loud.
\njasmine. begonia. forget-me-not.
\nit could be any of those.
\nthere is a cloud of insects swirling above toby’s head.
\nthey seem sad, urgent, buzzing.
\ntoby thinks \u2018same\u2019.
\ntoby thinks \u2018same\u2019 when he sees almost anything, these days.
\ntoby worries about being a narcissist, then about the bugs.
\nthey probably like the flower-smell too.
\ntoby thinks he should write this down somewhere, and make this all into a witty anecdote for future use.
\ntoby feels glum.
\ntoby is not sure whether being lost in this park feels liberating or free or sad or boring.
\nhow is one meant to find out?
\nis there a number one could call?
\ntoby’s phone does not work in spain.
\ntoby wonders if this writing style is derivative and tired.
\nhe feels tired.
\nhe has felt tired for a long time, now.
\nhe takes the same pills every night.
\ntoby wonders if his friend is enjoying his date.<\/p>\n
\nmaybe there will be something to look at:
\na view or something.
\ntoby throws the can in the bin.
\nhis friend will probably finish his date in an hour or so.<\/p>\n
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