Lionfish fry photographed by Steven Kovacs off Palm Beach, Florida, 2017
Masques made with Seashells by Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-79) (click for larger)
• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…
Sunburst lichen, Xanthorina parietina,* and Sea ivory, Ramalina siliquosa
• Songs from the Center of the Sun — an interview with Faster Than Lichen
• The Gold and the Grey — a pre-previous pre-posting of another version of this image
The surfer Darrick Doerner riding a big wave in Hawaii (from The Daily Mail)
(click image for full size)
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Bullets and Butterflies – Mad Dog Killers: The Story of a Congo Mercenary, Ivan Smith (Helion / 30° South Publishers 2012)
• Jaundiced on George – George Orwell: English Rebel, Robert Colls (Oxford University Press 2013)
• Crabsody in View – RSPB Handbook of the Seashore, Maya Plass (Bloomsbury 2013)
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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Conteur Compatissant – Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (Everyman’s Library 1934)
• Riff-Raph – 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces, Gordon Kerr (Flame Tree Publishing 2011)
• Fall of the Wild – A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke (1961)
• Orchid and Oak – Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, W.E. Vine et al (Thomas Nelson 1984)
• Hoare Here – Risingtidefallingstar, Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate 2017)
• Slug is a Drug — Collins Complete Guide to British Coastal Wildlife (2012)
…γῆς ἱδρῶτα θάλασσαν… — Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
“The sea is the sweat of the earth.” — Empedocles (c. 495–435 BC), Fragments 165
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Protean Prose – The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Charles Kingsley (1863)
• Schmetterlingsschmuck – Butterfly, Thomas Marent (Dorling Kindersley 2013)
• Criblia – ბიბლია / Biblia (Georgian Bible) (2013)
• Micro Macro – Super Bugs: The Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest Creepy Crawlies on the Planet, John Woodward with Dr George McGavin (Dorling Kindersley 2016)
• Chute: The Lot – The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group, Dave Simpson (Canongate paperback 2009)
• Twice Has Thrice the Vice – Pisces, Peter Sotos, with an introduction by Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2017)
• Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
