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It's on sale now: copies of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage can now be ordered from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

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Film review by Jorge Luis Borges of KING KONG (1933): King Kong: A monkey fourteen meters high (some of his fans say fifteen) is obviously charming, but perhaps that is not enough. This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements. His only virtue-his height-seems not to have greatly impressed the photographer, who persists in not shooting him from below but from above, a plainly mistaken angle that invalidates and annuls his tallness. It should be added that he is hunchbacked and bowlegged, features that also shorten him. To ensure that there is nothing extraordinary about him, they make him fight monsters far stranger than he and find him lodgings in fake caverns the size of a cathedral, where his hard-won stature is lost. A carnal or romantic love for Miss Fay Wray brings to perfection the ruin of this gorilla and of the film as well.

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

I am so excited to share my latest publication on Schelling's 1801 "Presentation," (the article also has my critique of F. Beiser). Vol 17. No. 1. Part 2. Cogency Journal of Reasoning. It's an honor to be in the same edition with @philosophermoss.bsky.social

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I love the Orient

A mighty contagious absence, part two On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they ...

I have written a long post about submission and resistance to AI-generated literature. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-mi...

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

In the mail: excited to see a new "Anthology of North Korean Fiction", 𝐻𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑒𝑠 anthempress.com/books/hidden...

Happy pride to u pimps

New review: "An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel" by Wu Jianren, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 www.complete-review.com/reviews/orie...

You should check out the Manga. It is very beautiful

Renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o is dead His family confirms his death saying, he “lived a full life, fought a good fight.”

Very sad to hear www.the-star.co.ke/news/2025-05...

All 22 Thomas Bernhard volumes for €49.95, that is a good deal. www.suhrkamp.de/buch/thomas-... (Pretty sure I have them all, but not in a nice uniform edition .....)

Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga Ends Final volume slated for June 26 release

Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering manga draws its final card

I would like to invite those who read this publication to join Full Moon Society. Full Moon Society is an international Discord server focused primarily on learning about art and philosophy (mainly aesthetics), but also about science. Moreover, we are a friendly and cooperative community.

One of nicest person I've had the pleasure of conversing with. Alway curious, alway passionate, I wish I can articulate nearly as well and experience nearly as diverses of ranges of art as you do.

What are your current favourites?

Great book

- Folktexts, a collection of folk tales from around the world: sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folkte...
- Kellscraft, illustrated books from 1890 -1920: www.kellscraft.com
- ISTA, religious and mythological achive: www.sacred-texts.com
- Aozora Bunko, huge japanese library: www.aozora.gr.jp

for no particular reason, here are some sites where you can read books for free:
- Project Gutenberg, which includes epubs and audio US public domain books: www.gutenberg.org
- Faded Page, canadian public domain: www.fadedpage.com
- Standard ebooks, US public domain: standardebooks.org
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She is, she is also a menace

Putting the philistinism aside, it is interesting and depressing to see the ways a lot of these people engage with these text. It all have to be comprehensible and tick all the box. I wonder if the concept of tropes and how "media" are viewed through them, have anything to do with this phenomenon.

Full Moon Society logo.

Today, 1st March 2025, together with Kingyoya, Momocattus and NadirNosferatu, we have inaugurated the semi-public Discord server Full Moon Society. 🌕

I wish the art works of Enersto Sabato is archived. I can't seem to find any creditable source hmm-__