A Shiver in the Archives

"Denizens of the archives have driven themselves into sweet oblivion by pursuing false leads down cold trails to dead ends, by amassing bulging but frequently useless dossiers, and by probing dull monographs . . . yet sometimes there comes a great notion." "A Shiver in the Archives" by Gale E. Christianson

Friday, February 26, 2021

Dunsany's Wax Seals

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I have previously written about Dunsany's clay caricatures at Wormwoodiana .  Recently I discovered some photographs of Dunsany's se...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Truly a Strange Creation Myth

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Here follows the strangest creation tale I think I've ever encountered.  Authorship at bottom. Let Us Make Gods There was once upon ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Man vs. Nature, as of 1932

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Every time one re-reads a worthy book, one finds new resonances within it. I believe this is my fifth time with this volume, and its ecologi...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Hell's Cartographers

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This book passed under my radar for a long time, but I'm glad to have finally discovered it. I guess I never made a connection with what...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Violet Apple by David Lindsay

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In sorting some large piles of research notes there emerged an advertisement for the first publication of David Lindsay's The Violet Ap...
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