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LIFE IN THE VAST LANE Upon birth, the North American cumulonimbus cloud rolls down from the Rocky Mountains, and from there, ever eastward into its notorious adult form, scraping along the troposphere with its anvil-like p...

LIFE IN THE VAST LANE
Upon birth, the North American cumulonimbus cloud rolls down from the Rocky Mountains, and from there, ever eastward into its notorious adult form, scraping along the troposphere with its anvil-like plumage. Cloudforms throughout... www.greaterrealityarea.net/life-in-the-...

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Line Drawing, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper (Sketch)

An obscure nephew known as “Head-biter”; a ghost that can‘t be crushed; the etymology of “thing“ in Chinese, used originally to designate a “piebald cow”; the “dusty world” as the realm of sensory, illusory experience.

Highlights from the notes to ‘An Account of Marvels and of Beasts’, tr. Massa.

Naming/unmasking that first guy was a mistake. it is not a binary they are to be kept faceless and dispensed with as such

this worked as long as there was a low-grade tab-keeping on the indices of progress which of course becomes imaginary.

such demand of continuity made indices dull plus it obliterates the rhythm.

It felt so vindicating reading that shit cramed into a caveat of a jail van

One of these has been corrosive to my high-school self after reading Karenina. Anna’s husbando Alexeevich “had never rushed things but had never rested either” —which provided a highschool kid an instrument for procrastination while feeling superior about it

in between the jolts from the bumps lines of inner monologue are squeezed in, and I recognized couple of nasty ones as Tolstoyan: moralizing arc capped with a profundity...such stuff is nowhere else to be found in the book

In that van/box (scene) there is a lucid simulation of insides of a cinematic experience broken up by flurry of resonances that make up Moosbrugger’s tortured mind.

fragments of hectic traffic filter through the bars

Every character in the book is written or outwritten in the sense that it exceeds reader’s capacity to form a moral position toward character therefore undoing the easy/usual way in

Somewhere around page 200 of Musil’s MwQ—chapter 40 or so— Moosbrugger is being shuttled in a jail van, shackled and escorted.

Every character in the book is given autonomy to influence the development of the book, so is Moosbrugger, with the difference that he gets more entangled with every act

Compound Eye Comparative Tarot | Uel Aramchek | Substack An exploration of modern tarot, as well as the tarot of the real. Click to read Compound Eye Comparative Tarot, by Uel Aramchek, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I wrote about comparative tarot largely during the pandemic, at compoundeye.substack.com, which is now free to read. As a collector of tarot decks, I found the choices artists make, and how they inform the whole of the medium to be a compelling space to write about at length.

💪🔥fyeah

there was a unusual sea foam spray in one of the seaside towns maybe near Hebrides or thereabout,

it was beginning of November ‘25. the spray had covered half the town and the picture above reminds of it, sans foam

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I want to retweet a hookland post, but the comment is not suited as top-quote, nor is it retweet+reply, rather a retweet+side comment (margin)

Something about this place feels deoxigenated maybe it’ll get better when more/better posters come.

some very cool people are here but there is no excess fodder for them to dunk on, so it skews into political signalling

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my comments here are mostly about books, was scorned for posting about ai…

the bulk of the timeline here imparts a mix of too urgent, too talented or too formal, sometimes all three. about half of the posts I see are reposts. it misses the casual show of force that some of you have on twitter

This is an announcement regarding the future of The Empyrean Series of Sublunary Editions, for which I have served as series editor since its inception in 2021. The forty-ninth and the fiftieth titles, which I am currently editing and designing, are slated to be the last in the series. The forty-ninth title, as previously announced, will be Peter Lebrecht: A Tale Devoid of Adventures (by Ludwig Tieck, 1795, newly translated by Douglas Robertson). Editorial work on the series will be brought to completion with the publication of our fiftieth title, An Account of Marvels and of Beasts (by the Tang dynasty writer Niu Sengru, newly translated by Maxwell Massa), on or around May 15. Coincidentally, this date will mark roughly five years since the publication of the first title in the series, Three Dreams (Jean Paul and Laurence Sterne), in the spring of 2021.

It has been an amazing five years of publications. I know that my co-editor Joshua Rothes and I are both proud of all that we have achieved. By resurrecting sundry voices from centuries past, we have altered and added to the fields of American modernism, Iberian literature, Romanticisms English and German, early modern English literature, and several other fields. In the words of Julie Melby (writing in American Book Review), the series catalog ”serves as a wake-up call to scholars and general readers alike”. It is tempting to single out some of the names that made the series what it was: Jean Paul, Kathleen Tankersley Young, James Thomson, Antonio de Guevara, Thomas De Quincey, Boris Pilnyak, and so on. Such a list feels absurdly incomplete alongside a full listing of the many authors whose work we have championed. This post concludes with a list of the series titles in sequence, if only because it is good to preserve and remember them in one place.

It has been rewarding to work with the many brilliant editors and translators whose work made our volumes possible. I am grateful to the series’s subscribers and its devoted readers and enthusiasts, and to the many librarians, booksellers, and scholars who helped readers to discover books in the series. We could not have done it without you. The series will continue to operate as an equal partnership between Joshua Rothes and myself, and to sell its stock of titles remaining in print. These are available for purchase through Asterism Books, our Seattle distributor. I would encourage you to explore the catalogue, if you are not familiar with it already, and also to share your enthusiasm for the books with your friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. —Jacob Siefring

At my blog, a brief statement on the past & the future of the Empyrean Series, which will turn 5 years old this April
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an abstract painting i made with vertical streaks of red, cream, blue and black on a distressed and textured wooden surface. nina theda black.

12x12 acrylic on wood

Short wintry poem.

AN ENDANGERED SPECIES The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over ...

The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
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S4E33 -Off The Record with Mike Corrao: That's The Vanishing Point In The Distance

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Very pleased to feature in the epically long running Dusie Tuesday poem series, with thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social Here is the first piece, with more at dusie.blogspot.com/2025/12/tues...

the Internet does this thing where a fine idea will be hijacked by a buzzword—think of “Agile”— and you sort of tune it out, and everything surrounding it