Aztec or Jacobean lily, Sprekelia formosissima (L.) (Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #61
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Orchid Kid – The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)
• Deep in the Dark – The Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)
• Faces and Facts – The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)
• Persian Pool – Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)
• Hooky Here – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)
• #MiToo – Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)
• Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Blue Dew
Field Forget-Me-Not, Myosotis arvensis
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #51
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Bits of the Best – The Shorter Strachey, Lytton Strachey, ed. Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy (Oxford University Press 1980)
• Shaman On U! – Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock’n’Roll Underworld, Julian Cope (Faber and Faber 2012)
• Scorpions and Sea-Lords – Philip’s Guide to Seashells, A.P.H. Oliver, illustrated by James Nicholls (various)
• Spike-U-Like – The Cactus Handbook, Erik Haustein, translated by Pamela Marwood (Cathay Books 1988)
• Glasguitargang – Dog Eat Dog: A Story of Survival, Struggle and Triumph by the Man Who Put AC/DC on the World Stage, Michael Browning (Allen & Unwin 2014)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #37
• Il sole, con tutti quei pianeti che girano intorno ad esso e da esso dipendono, può ancora maturare un grappolo d’uva come se non vi fosse nient’altro da fare in tutto l’universo. — Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642.
• “The sun, with all those planets turning around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)
• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)
• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)
• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)
• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #45
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Plants on Paper – Drawing and Painting Plants, Christina Brodie (A & C Black 2006)
• Lewminiferous – Guide to Garden Wildlife, Richard Lewington (British Wildlife Publishing 2008)
• Old Gold – Puskás: Madrid, the Magyars and the Amazing Adventures of the World’s Greatest Goalscorer, György Szöllős (Freight Books 2015)
• Rosetta Rok – Rok 1984, George Orwell (MUZA SA, Warszawa 2001)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #43
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Avens Above – Harrap’s Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland, Simon Harrap (Bloomsbury 2013)
• Place of Glades – A Dictionary of British Place-Names, A.D. Mills (Oxford University Press 1991)
• De Minimis Curat Rex? – Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander (Oneworld 2014)
• Seen and Not Heard – The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear, ed. Bruno MacDonald (Aurum Press 2014)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
The Stages of Cin (#3)
Cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris
Update: In fact, it’s a Six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. Probably.
Hare Today
Harebells, Campanula rotundifolia.
