Category Archives: The Sea

Loricifera Rising

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Marine Loriciferan Pliciloricus enigmaticus

The very Lovecraftian Loriciferan Pliciloricus enigmaticus (Higgins & Kristensen, 1986)

N.B. The title of this incendiary intervention is a paronomasia on Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising (1972) (which I ain’t never seen nohow).

Eyeway to Shell

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Previously pre-posted:

• Eyeway to Ell — a better paronamasia than this one…

Bi-Kin (Lichen)

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Sunburst lichen, Xanthorina parietina,* and Sea ivory, Ramalina siliquosa

Previously pre-posted:

• 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

*Possibly.

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #63

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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)

Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR

Performativizing Papyrocentricity #60

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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)

Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR