Welcome

y name is Matthew Spong, and I would like to welcome you to my library. Actually, I would not like to welcome you to my library. You may not enter my library or borrow any of my books. If I found you in my library you would probably disappear and never be seen again. However, you are welcome to browse this website and enjoy whatever documents and resources I decide to upload here.

Here you will find links to several social networks I bother with, and some various ephemera from my digital youth, curiosities entertaining mainly for their quaint antiquity rather than their skill or artistic value. Also several books which may be of interest to scholars, and which I found amusement in scanning and converting into various formats. There are some juvenile attempts at creative writing which I provide more for self mortification from embarrassment, to prevent myself from ever attempting such things again. Possibly some instructional receipts, mostly very simple things which one can make or build entirely by oneself.

Before you continue, I would like to confess a few matters which may prevent you from wasting your time

• I am a hedonist and epicurean with an obsession with the concept of true luxury. In the modern world the concept of luxury has been polluted by mass production and the corruption of brands. Anything which can be bought is automatically worthless. The only true luxuries remaining and worthy of pursuing by anyone possessing taste are hand-made. The only difference between a bottle of wine worth $100 and $1000 dollars is a number and an intellectual frisson which can be replaced by opening a home-made bottle of wine which nobody else could reproduce or locate to buy. As I write these words I'm drinking a bottle of my own orange wine which is fiery and rich and complex and you will never know how good it is. The greatest luxury of all is and always has been time, which cannot be bought but only sold for far less than it is worth.