Albrecht Dürer, Das große Rasenstück / Great Piece of Turf (1503)
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We have three sets of cones (or colour sensors) in our retinas, each of which is sensitive to a different part of the colour spectrum; the brain then constructs the rest of the spectrum by extrapolating from the relative strength of these three. In the case of purple, which occurs when the red and blue sensors but not the green ones are triggered, the brain creates a colour to fill the gap. If your brain were more objective, rather than showing you purple, it would display a patch of flickering grey with the words “system error” on it. — Rory Sutherland in Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense (2019), section 6.2
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Homing in the Gloaming – Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return, Jon Day (John Murray 2019)
• Niceberg – The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl (Simon & Schuster 2021)
• Nasty Lastly – Nasty Endings 1, compiled by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 2001)
• Daysed and Confused – Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia, Joe Banks (Strange Attractor 2020)
• World-Wide Wipe-Out – Empty World, John Christopher (1977)
• Chuck Off – Post Office, Charles Bukowski (1971)
• #AllDayDong – Dong, Peter Sotos and Sam Salatta (TransVisceral Books 2022)
• Meet the Maverick Munch-Bunch… – Naked Krunch: The Sinister, Sordid and Strangely Scrumptious Story of SavSnaq, Dr David M. Mitchell (Savoy Books 2022)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac, Henri Lucien Doucet (1879)
Passionately Pre-Posted…
• Portrait of a Peacock — Cornelia Otis Skinner’s biographical sketch of Montesquiou
• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées — review of Julian Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat (2019)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• The hands of Robert de Montesquiou at Strange Flowers
“In a very real sense, the Holocaust, as the ultimate moral and aesthetic obscenity, was also the ultimate drum-solo.” — Simon Whitechapel, 31i18
The Rain It Raineth Every Day (1889) by Norman Garstin (1847–1926)
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Clive Drive – Unreliable Memoirs (1980) and Always Unreliable: The Memoirs (2001), Clive James
• Nou’s Who – Art Nouveau, Camilla de la Bedoyere (Flame Tree Publishing 2005)
• Hit and Mistletoe – Through It All I’ve Always Laughed, Count Arthur Strong (Faber & Faber 2013)
• Beauties and Beasts — Shardik, Richard Adams (1974)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Russian Bee Stamps 2005
British Bee Stamps 2015
Elsewhere other-accessible
• Royal Mail bee stamps designed to raise awareness of species
Cover of Damned to Earth’s self-titled debut
Previously Pre-Posted…
• Museek — in which I don’t like the cover but do like the music
• A Little Light Night Music — in which I don’t like the music but do like the cover
John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1825, Frick Collection)
Elsewhere other-engageable…
• Discussion of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds (1823) at Wikipedia
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 