Strawberry snail, Trochalus striolatus (Pfeiffer, 1828)*
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*Possibly.
Troch’ and Roll
Toxic Turntable #12
Currently listening…
• Yox, Imblivion (1993)
• Islefloes, Otiose (2015)
• Skyland, R’ziji Zozoïs (2010)
• Palmister, Ocean of Om (1967)
• Venushügel, Dreiundfünfzig Nacktschnecken (2011)
• Senam Cearapt, Xuk (2013)
• Anulyae, Heathensong (2009)
• Ultra-Eclipse, U.H.F. (1985)
• Jovis Glans, Vassavox (1998)
• Srar, Almas Ciegas (1975)
• Jethro Tull, Songs from the Wood (1977)
• Gu Qlipvi, Via Negativa (1989)
Previously pre-posted:
Toxic Turntable #1 • #2 • #3 • #4 • #5 • #6 • #7 • #8 • #9 • #10 • #11 •
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #45
…ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν… — Πίνδαρου Ολυμπιόνικος ΙΙ, 98
“…the sand escapes all numbering…” — Pindar, Second Olympian Ode, line 98
White Wight with Witch-Wife
Gustave Moreau, Jason et Médée (1865)
Oh My Guardian #3
“A theatre director and therapist, she had been volunteering in Calais since August 2015, initially distributing donations and then running workshops.” — Borderline: the play finding the funny side of the Calais migrant camp, The Guardian, 21/vi/2017.
Previously pre-posted…
• Oh My Guardian #1
• Oh My Guardian #2
• Reds under the Thread
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #54
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
Hair Today
“We had a roadie guarding his dressing room, to stop him [Graham Bonnet] getting out, because he was threatening to have his hair cut. It was very petty, but it had become an obsession with me. But he got out of the back window and went and got his hair cut. I didn’t see him until we went on stage, and, sure enough, he’d had his hair cut really short. He was doing it just to annoy me.” — Ritchie Blackmore: “Ritchie Blackmore: ‘I’m not a guy who likes jamming and having fun. Music is very serious’”, The Guardian, 25v2017
Pedal to the Medal
“Once, in a contest with a rival, he painted a blue curve on a huge sheet of paper. Then he dipped the feet of a chicken in red paint and persuaded the bird to walk all over the paper. The resulting image, he said, represented the Tatsuta river with red maple leaves floating in it. The judge gave him the prize.” — The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1760-1849) described in Thomas W. Hodgkinson’s and Hubert van den Bergh’s How to Sound Cultured (2015)
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #44
H. Rider Haggard describes fractals:
Out of the vast main aisle there opened here and there smaller caves, exactly, Sir Henry said, as chapels open out of great cathedrals. Some were large, but one or two — and this is a wonderful instance of how nature carries out her handiwork by the same unvarying laws, utterly irrespective of size — were tiny. One little nook, for instance, was no larger than an unusually big doll’s house, and yet it might have been a model for the whole place, for the water dropped, tiny icicles hung, and spar columns were forming in just the same way. — King Solomon’s Mines, 1885, ch. XVI, “The Place of Death”
