Norman Weaver’s cover for The Freedom Trap (1971) by Desmond Bagley (image from Morgan’s Rare Books)
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Author Archives: Krilling for Company
Prosaic Mosaic
• בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ — Hebrew
•• Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν. — Ancient Greek
••• In principio creavit Deus cælum et terram. — Latin
•••• In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth. — Early Modern English
••••• In terms of the preliminary period, a frankly outmoded hypothesized “divine” entity intitiated a core consultation exercise around a series of key constructive programmes vis à vis both the celestial but also terrestrial realms. — Guardianese
Elsewhere other-accessible…
• Ex-Term-In-Ate! — interrogating issues around “in terms of”…
• All posts interrogating issues around “in terms of”…
Mosquey Moggy
The Turkish shorthair cat Gli in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (viâ Cats in Islam)
Bore is More
“Why boredom is anything but boring — Implicated in everything from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has become extremely interesting to scientists”, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Nature, 12i2016.
Elsewhere other-engageable…
• Beard Tales — a review of Alan Moore’s The Devotee of Ennui (2013)
Kit-Bits
Use a straight-edged object against the screen to confirm that these are straight lines
Perfect circles, despite what your eyes say
Concentric circles, not a spiral
The optical illusions above are by the Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka via SYFY.
Gorey Story
Un moine au milieu de la messe
S’eleva et cria en détresse:
« La vie religieuse,
C’est sale et affreuse! »
Et se poignarda dans les fesses. — Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
Currently Glistening…
• Tusmørkejuvel, Twilight Jewel (2018)
• Cybernetic Witch Cult, Morlock Rock (2015)
• Bizarra Locomotiva, Homem Máquina (2002)
• Turtle Skull, Monoliths (2020)
• Spotlights, We Are All Atomic (2020)
• Elevators to the Grateful Sky, Nude (2019)
• Egypt, Endless Flight (2015)
• Red Eye, The Cycle (2022)
• Temple Of The Fuzz Witch, Live and Unreleased (2020)
• Compulsion, The Future Is Medium (1996)
• Ultraphallus, First Demo (2004)
• Dunerider, Ascend to the Void (2021)
• Obiat, Emotionally Driven Disturbulence (2005)
• Fuzzthrone, Temple of the Fuzz (2021)
• Kråkslott, The Witchhammer (2021)
• Sludge Terror, Tenebris EP (2018)
• Pitchshifter, Submit (1992)
• The Autumn Spiders, Woe of the World (1987)
• Faster Pussycat, Best Of (2021)
Home of the Gits
“They’re not misanthropic, they’re just rude.” — drummer Justin Greaves on his former bandmates in Electric Wizard, as reported in Dan Franklin’s Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World (2020)
Double-Gweeling
My short-story collection Gweel & Other Alterities has very kindly been re-published by D.M. Mitchell at Incunabula:
• Gweel & Other Alterities – Incunabula’s new edition
• Once More (With Gweeling) – my short review of the new edition
• Incunabula Media — wildness and weirdness in words and more
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Sprung from the Tongue
• Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales. — attributed to the polyglot Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
• • You’re worth as many people as the languages you speak.
• • The more languages you speak, the more people you are.
• • Speak a new language, be a new person.
• • New language, new person.
• • New tongue, new man.
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 