On Reentry

Dimitris Vayenas
5 min readAug 21, 2021

Reentry-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work

Camel’s iconic Ice also requires a decent audio kit to be fully enjoyed. The engineering challenge to produce Analogue to Digital Converters to digitize the material as well as Digital to Analogue Converters to reproduce it (and still give to the audience the shivers that the original was giving) was enormous.


He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires work while it is being done as the next best thing to resurrecting a situation!
She: Bullshit!
He: Well, we usually talk to solve a problem! Even if we don’t solve the problem, by just sharing what is bothering us, become comfortable in our space! This is why Logos is important! Why do we spend so much time communicating, if not for the consolation that this sharing is offering? But talking for nothing is non-existent!

I know the importance of Space. I am risking Death for it since age 15 when I started smoking. You see, I do not smoke for the joy of smoking per se (my first puff was as bitter as anyone’s). Its initial sweet dizziness soon offered no further comfort other than craving relief. I, like most, smoke to claim some extra space. My puffs help me claim extra space and give me a break from what is constraining me. From the boring fellow student in high school to the boring colleague or the boring task. Smoking signals to others that I am reentering a break, a private mode, piss…

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Dimitris Vayenas
Dimitris Vayenas

Written by Dimitris Vayenas

Ageing researcher of Theoretical Computer Science trying to model & quantify opacity based at Exeter College, Oxford

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