Do I Have an Occult Readership?

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From Merriam Webster

occult

1: not revealed : secret

… deep subterranean occult jealousy …— J. C. Powys

2: not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious

… occult matters like nuclear physics, radiation effects and the designing of rockets …— Robert Bendiner

3: hidden from view : concealed

occult underground passages

4: of or relating to supernatural or supernormal powers or practices or the knowledge of them

… the occult arts—astrology, palmistry, card reading …— Amy Fine Collins

occult practices

5: not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone

occult carcinoma

also : not present in macroscopic amounts

occult blood in a stool

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WordPress provides limited statistics on the overt readership of this blog. These suggest that readership is low. I have not gone viral. I have some readers in the USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Vietnam. There are a couple of visitors from blighty.

This is the only data I have about the readership of the blog. Given all the shit you see on TV and in the movies there has to be an outside chance that others read the blog, my occult audience. This is impossible to scale. In the limit Elon the barking mad might be reading…

In the realms of movies and sci-fi something may come out of this occult audience. I could be in a bar in Casablanca and get approached. Only I don’t go to bars. I don’t see many people with homeland security earpieces at Intermarché. There is the special needs woman whose medication varies and occasionally goes in for inpatient care. There is speedy Gonzales the fastest checkout in the West and there is the tiny Breton woman with her push cart who is there every Monday morning. I am on “bonjour” terms with a number of staff either in the supermarket or outside.

Last night I had more “subjective” evidence of a London based occult readership. Why they were in my consciousness I cannot say. Perhaps I need to join the checkout girl on one of her stays. The thing about occult readership is that they cannot be taken into consideration when it comes to decision making because in reality I do not know that they are there. They are occult to me.

It is only a complete idiot who makes any decisions based on anything occult…