Hey ,I hope you had a fantastic week and a bit - time flies when you're busy and having fun, it's already Tuesday! It seems autumn is now officially settling in both with a bit of colder and a bit dreary grey weather, and also because I believe this weekend was the last time France will be changing the clocks for winter, after the EU voted to end the seasonal daylight savings hour. I've had some interesting and stimulating work-related meetings and conversations last week, nothing firm to announce just yet, for now suffice to say things are bubbling up in interesting fashion,  and it's great to be in touch with people up to all sorts of interesting professional projects in France and elsewhere.I have an impressive brand new armoured door and secure lock now by the way. I realise I hadn't updated you in the newsletter about the end story of the attempted break-in. It's occasionally funny for me to catch up with a friend or acquaintance, I tell them something that recently happened, and they reply that they're already aware and read it in my newsletter. I forget people read this sometimes!I started playing a new campaign of a tabletop roleplaying game with friends last week. I mentioned it before, it's called Invisible Sun, more on that in the stories below. It's exciting to begin a new tabletop RPG campaign, I hadn't in a few years!I think that's about it for now on main news. What's been happening with you? CiaoWillem

 Weekly Combo Two or three flavours, interesting separately, fascinating together 

One of my best friends lives in Hong Kong. I've been wondering about how it was there, overall it's not very encouraging for free speech, let alone the original apparent hope that between 1997 when Great Britain handed over Hong Kong to 2047 when China will officially have full sovereignty over the territory, there will have been changes possibly leading to an ongoing form of free democracy. At least listening to the episode is what it sounds like.

The idea is about "the enforced juxtaposition of two alien realities that challenges an observer's preconditioned perception of reality." The Hong Kong protests have become known at 'The Umbrella Movement" and listening to the episode above is an exercise full of strange juxtapositions. Umbrellas designed to protect from reassigned to protecting from riot police rubber bullets. Protestors who believe their efforts are doomed to fail, and still go out there, risking arrest and even imprisonment. Seemingly innocuous young office workers, leading double lives, changing into full black gear, swerving in and then out of protests, make-up bag and change of clothes handy, switching from facing riot police to generic person on the street. I don't have any more answers than observing that while we aren't recovering from the First World War as were the first members of the original surrealism movement, we seem to live in strange times nonetheless. It's fascinating for me to dig into surrealism for make-believe gaming purposes, and at the same time I wonder what can be learned from looking at our current world with a surrealist lens?