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March IX

A Different Room Entirely

A Brahma rooster in an embroidered charcoal Nehru-collar jacket, lit by a single shaft of side light against a dark background, expression grave and composed

He had made his name in a different room entirely — one with better acoustics and a considerably shorter institutional memory. The old order, it turned out, had been sustained less by conviction than by the habit of it. By midday, the mountain had found itself a new voice.

9 March 2026