a fatberg of selfies

washing the detectives

13.

as-if i-have-to
flame cupped
old chemical thought

now clarified
& the world

Clock of clocks.

pacific honor pun urn

(still from The Mephisto Waltz, via In Search of Pagan Hollywood on Fb)

Diaosi.

    "Fish

fish away
you like those long black
houses where her branches roll
where flowers hang bare
water there
for gold trees upon heaven
about some air
before thee an emerald
world among water but
her shadow there
like their bright
eye seems near"

by Deep Gimble II

the elephants of style

"Billows of darkness with a dirging roar" --Horne

Lightning in Japanese prints.

multiocular O

(via)

The mystic shaping Russia's future and bringing back the Dark Ages.

shekel karma tort

Who gets to write the Outsider?

"Over a restless sea of jasper fire" --Horne

Crowley on Dylan.

uncloudy

Xeno-futurism thread.

"I believe that a conscious affinity with Nature forms the shield of Perseus through which man can affront the Gorgon of his fate and that, in the termitaries of the future where humanity cements itself up from the light of the sun, this dragon-slaying mirror will rust and tarnish." --The Unquiet Grave

hojicha castle

"Whose echoes 'midst incumbent foliage died" --Horne

The Mushroom at the End of the World.

"...Nesselrode, rut, pursued oms, Asmodeus & mad." --Dr Awkward

The Handmaid's Tale in the age of Trump.

Dogs don't know they have a face. Humans don't know they have a group-mind.

aklo polka

Neave Planitarium.

"When I first thought I might have Alzheimer's, I got out my dragons. I'd had most of them in my closet for several years. I'd let them hide in the dark cave of my closet for as long as it took." --J R Comptom on ThEdblog.

Exorcism.

one thousand gifs

"Politicians do not understand much, but they do understand politics." --G K Chesterton

Euler-Diderot debunked. More.

" '...That Scott Joplin piece they are forging, is it the Sycamore Leaf Rag?' Constantine asked.

'Oh no, it's the Box-Elder Leaf Rag...' " --R A Lafferty, Apocalypses (1977)

Superhero Orixas.

(@tesoros_japon via @SHINKAN34721410)

Beginning of what looks to be an interesting series of blog-posts on philosophy.

"Every real artist lives within the lines of order, and a forger must live within them still more strictly than any other." --Lafferty, op cit

"Evolists view his ship as coming in..."

"Midnight tremendous, silence, and iron sleep" --Horne

(Orion Nebula via Nasa)

collectible cheetoh

(via @SHINKAN34721410)

Life under alternative facts. (via @JoyceCarolOates)

"So from faint nebulae bright worlds are born;
So worlds return to vapour..."

--Richard Horne, Orion (1843)

Balaclava boom. (via Todd Gitlin)

monkey steals the peach

Nigredo.

"And from the relics of old mines
Derives his algebraic signs"

--W H Auden

good scop bad scop

virtuoso cogencies lull top

(from Carnival of Souls via bloggingby cinema-light)

Mars and Venus in the Koran.

young aryans in love

(via @itssylviaplath)

Trump triumphant.

"Cornell, who never felt at home in his own body or in his own house, makes his boxes as a nest for himself." --Gabriel Josipovici, Hotel Andromeda (2014)

Sanskrit loanwords in Indonesian.

"The idea of using a written apostrophe before the 's' to identify a genitive singular was not adopted until the seventeenth century, and the idea of using it after the 's' to identify a genitive plural was not adopted until the eighteenth century." --Culpepper, History of English

Mexican fuels.

your enslaving yon a
lousy ravening yon a
gravely noisy noun a
runny lion's voyage a
slung ivory anyone a
over us annoyingly a
snarling envoy you a
loony rev unsaying a
noisily nervy guano a
gunnery ivy saloon a
royal ninny's vogue a
ninny argosy ovule a
nosegay a runny viol
only a yang souvenir

Nor is it Written.

(via @SaladinAhmed)

before ploys

blind
surrounded by candles
sound of rain on the windshield
historic jellyfish

increases
decreases
rattles anew
strip of paler sky
at the horizon

red light on a tower

All about Boys for Pele.

my car silver gray
the color of this sky
tail lights glow
i am come

from the future you prevented

"Gossip, black rumors, subversions, insults, trolling, lies, deceits, cyberwar, rape allegations – even sabotage and leaks. These pollutants used to be filtered out of the public discourse by cautious media gatekeepers. Now they are weaponized."

a sticky croak

(pic by kathy robinson-hays)

Fake news sites.

"“It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.” ―Cyril Connolly, 1949

"How is anything like governance or politics possible when there isn’t any shared reality?"

(via jessica eliassen on fb)

huaco silbador

(via @HarrySKeeler)

Grypsera.

"Ghosh attributes our current inability to see, represent, and understand environmental crisis to a probabilistic worldview that emerged in the 19th century and made no room for such 'uncanny' weather phenomena as freak tornadoes. Indeed, he argues that 'the uncanny intimacy of our relationship with the nonhuman' would only be tolerated in the realm of the supernatural, in the ghost stories of Charles Dickens or Henry James." --Stacey Balkan at Public Books blog, via aldaily

Hüzün redux. More.

"Just as no one knows the real nature of God but God himself, so no one knows the real nature of a prophet but a prophet." --al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness (tr Murray, 1910)

"As the dream of becoming the world’s language becomes increasingly remote, many Esperantists are embracing the status of 'self-elected diasporic minority,' proclaiming themselves speakers of a language just as worthy and particular as any other..."

"One cannot emphasise enough just how crucial was the mass domestication of the car, ensuring the transition from what might be called 'traditional solidarities' to the unprecedented unleashing of modern individualism. What does it matter if the car kills, pollutes, and often makes people into total jerks, its proliferation destroying every urban space worthy of the name, when what is at stake is to ensure the domestication of gigantic human masses, the forging of thousands of psychologies of average men on wheels, 'highway mentalities', aping day and night the fluidities and competition of the Great market, etching it into the landscape ....?"

--Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs (via Spurious)

"The trajectory of Silliman’s blog is a cautionary tale for poets."

the secret life of poppies

(via time dot com)

Of Oz the Wizard. (via katexic)

"I am mad as a blizzard
I stare out of broken cupboards"

--Diane di Prima

We ivre tawny, innate tanniyn, Waterview.

(via gordon hilgers on fb)

Underwater Sun.

"In the thinking of the pious, the Floor of the Sea is a great, calm plain on which, in static promenade, the buried dead stand about in the blue shrouds of women and the red shrouds of men, their feet bound to their burial stones, contemplating for eternity the aqueous silence.
     Unable to bear such a prospect, the sailor has invented the lascivious Sea women, and the soldier has named our twin suns Sha'tule and the Sha'charn...'commander of the dead that arise as mists,' and 'commander of the dead that arise as storms.' " --Wyman Guin, "A Man of the Renaissance" in: Living Way Out (1967)

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