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Tag Archives: Natural History
Super Fly Guide
Various species of Hoverfly (click for larger)
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #63
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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Cats’ Ice
Cats are of divers colours, but for the most part griseld, like to congealed ise, which cometh from the condition of her meat: her head is like unto the head of a Lion, except in her sharp ears: her flesh is soft and smooth: her eyes glister above measure, especially when a man cometh to see them on the suddain, and in the night they can hardly be endured, for their flaming aspect. Wherefore Democritus describing the Persian Smaragde saith that it is not transparent, but filleth the eye with pleasant brightness, such as is in the eyes of Panthers and Cats, for they cast forth beams in the shadow and darkness, but in sunshine they have no such clearness, and thereof Alexander Aphrodise giveth this reason, both for the sight of Cats and Bats, that they have by nature a most sharpe spirit of seeing. — Edward Topsell, Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1658).
Dux de Luxe
A mandarin duck, Aix galericulata, in a Russian tree (from The In-Terms-in-Ator)
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)
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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #47
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• The Sting’s the Thing – A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2013)
• Two Heads, Two Tongues – Excuse my French! Fluent Français without the Faux Pas, Rachel Best and Jean-Christophe Van Waes (Kyle Books 2013)
• Marred Moon – Void Moon, Michael Connelly (2000)
• ’Vile Vibes – In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile, Dan Davies (Quercus 2014)
• One-Stop Chop-Shop – Toxic Trannies from Kastration Kamp 23: A Sinister Symposium of Academic Assholes Shamelessly Shmoog the Filthiest Films in Cess-Cinema, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Samuel P. Salatta, et al (TransToxic Texts 2016)
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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)
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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)
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