Hi readers! It’s Mysticeti’s favourite time of the year and we thought of sharing three treasures from our archives that we are revisiting this fall.
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Read State(s) of Limbo
- a personal essay that makes us relive the moments before submitting our thesis
An excerpt from State(s) of Limbo ~
Sitting on my desk, I am vaguely aware of my leg bobbing up and down as I look over my thesis checklist for the hundredth time. I sigh loudly and open the thesis file, lying within easy reach on my desktop, unlike the layers I waded through to arrive at the complete draft, ready for submission. It seems tremendously challenging to cross this final threshold despite all the hard work of wading, peeling, clarifying, and writing. I controlled the fate of the thesis, and now I needed to pass that on to the examiners. It was all too much. The knots gathered in my gut as a clumpy mess. I looked at my calendar – it was indeed the day I marked for submission, the day I had thought the ongoing madness of checking and rechecking would end.
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Listen to Begum’s Are you ok?
- an album that makes us stroll around and nap in the park.
Begum is an alternate dreamscape band from Delhi, India. The band was initially formed as an exercise in allowing both lyrics and sonics to spill out with no second thoughts. Over almost ten years, it has become more refined, but still based on that gut instinct.
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Head to the streets, discover new music, and do some impromptu writing with Mysticeti’s Leap Out
Every few months, Mysticeti curates Leap Out - an experience for you to pause, reflect and write. This time we are discovering new music, going for a long walk and finding a home for our words in the streets.