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Dio Knees
when pictured like this, with its darkened viewing rooms, costumed audiences in fine silks with foreheads girdled by gem-set diadems, and the increasing abuse of the locus amoenus as a tool of subversion, it recalls how the origins of cinematic viewing experiences are rooted in bacchic and dionysian mystery theatres. in an oblique yet definite…
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Bene Diction
Quality Siegfried Sassers biopic. Sadly missing Robert Graves but perhaps that’s mercy after last year’s The Laureate. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6852178/
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Abraham LinkedIn
In Terje J Simonsen’s A Short History of Nearly Everything Paranormal, the author describes two fortean occurrences preceding Lincoln’s assassination. The pharmakos President experienced a strange, retroactively-prophetic dream in which he traversed the White House’s deserted corridors until he came upon a light-drenched parlor, wherein a grief-hushed crowd waked a corpse. He entered, drew close to…
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Tempus Fu-Jitsu
When my grandfather, dad’s dad, was dying in hospital in the early 90s, there was concern among the family that they would be unable to contact the youngest son, my uncle. At that time, said uncle was teaching in a remote Zimbabwean village which had a single rotary phone for community use. Despite large time…
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(f)Uncanny
Listened to BBC Uncanny 3 part Summer special today, sublime. Goosebumps guaranteed once per episode. Recommend enjoying with curtains drawn and a single candle burning. You’ll find podcasts with deeper dives, better production values, more banter etc but for sheer narrative force, Uncanny tops the pile. Plus, refreshing British matter-of-factness lends credence to more absurd…
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