Monthly Archives: April 2019

Raised in the jungle by wolfes

Posted on April 26, 2019 by

I forgot to make note of it on here, but Gene Wolfe died recently. Needless to say, he was one of a handful of fiction writers who had an absolutely essential impact on me. He also helped design the machine … Continue reading →

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Items recently read

Posted on April 24, 2019 by

As it says in the title.

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In which I say words like ‘otakusona’

Posted on April 23, 2019 by

So, as discussed previously, my thirtieth year on this planet brought the return of my younger flirtation with makeup and such, and as it turns out I can do this sort of thing with greater precision and confidence, as the … Continue reading →

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Brute beauty

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he … Continue reading →

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