Scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis L. 1753 (more at Wikipedia)
Scarlet Varlet
Category Archives: Biology
Scarlet Varlet
Osmic Ways
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
osmic adj. Of or relating to the sense of smell. Also: relating to odour. [ancient Greek ὀσμή, osmē, smell, odour + ‑ic suffix] — Oxford English Dictionary
Figure Philia
“I love figures, it gives me an intense satisfaction to deal with them, they’re living things to me, and now that I can handle them all day long I feel myself again.” — the imprisoned accountant Jean Charvin in W. Somerset Maugham’s short-story “A Man with a Conscience” (1939)
Sphere Here
A perceived sphere (image from AnOpticalIllusion.com)
Still-Popper
“My only drugs are silence and solitude.” — Frederick Forsyth in The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue (2015)
Gamma Gamma Hey!
Silver Y Moth, Autographa gamma (Linnaeus 1758)
Reflet de Robert
[I]t was hard to pierce Robert de Montesquiou’s carapace — and he wouldn’t have wanted you to. He was perhaps at heart a melancholic: he liked to say that his mother had “given me the sad present of life”. His restlessness and furious inquisitiveness might have been a response to this. He was vain without being especially self-reflective, one of those who, rather than look inside to discover who they are, prefer to see themselves in the reflections that come back from others. — Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat (2019), pp. 192-3
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Portait of a Peacock — Cornelia Otis Skinner’s essay on Montesquiou
• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées — review of Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat
Geometricks
Some examples of impossible geometry (poster at Tarquin)
Nostocalgie de la Boue
The colonial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune (image from Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is a reference to the French phrase nostalgie de la boue, literally meaning “nostalgia for mud” and referring to a longing for social or sexual degradation.
Green Seen
When you stare at the cross for at least 30 seconds, you see three illusions:
• A gap running around the circle of lilac discs;
• A green disc running around the circle of lilac discs in place of the gap; and
• The green disc running around on the grey background, with the lilac discs having disappeared in sequence. — Lilac Chaser, Wikipedia
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Troxler’s fading at Wikipedia
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
