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• The Liffey Thing

  From April 23 1983 Irish Independent article by Peter Cowan Archaeologists have described the largest Viking graveyard ever to be excavated in Europe outside Scandinavia as a “significant find”. Pottery, stirrups, and locks were found during preliminary trenching at Dublin’s Phoenix Tunnel. ACI were notified when workmen found high numbers of topsoil artifacts. Foreman K…

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  28th Aug 2023

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• Short story: Somme Nambulist

  To the reader, sonic partnership for your journey through the codex: https://alchemisland.bandcamp.com/track/somme-nambulent-i 1916. The violent tapestry of a red century’s troubled childhood is invisible beneath the bloodstains. The war which was to end before Christmas drags on into its second year of breakless harvest. On the shattered continent the rutting stags of European royalty vye…

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  25th Aug 2023

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• Fragments from the broken wheel

  Dublionysus, Mangan’s lurid epic penned in an absinthopium haze. The poet’s correspondence highlights a mysterious redheaded bedmate who tended his fleshly pangs during the tract’s 23 day construction period but her name, like Mangan’s manuscript, is lost.  Themes of national and personal confination abound in Mangan’s work and seem to reify thematically as assignments in…

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  21st Aug 2023

  alchemisland of Ireland, Filí my pockets, Short Stories, wyrd mythology

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• 90 most haunted angle 90

  Magic is like a mushroom  One head before thine eye  Scarce belies abundant bloom Subterranes, fearful sky One million unique crafts Cults of infinite variety Masterplan master’s laughs Engulfed flames the piety Piles of hewn noses  Cleft to spite faces  Red paint reed raised Moses Death these vile places  Erase thereof traces Multitudinous as the…

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  21st Aug 2023

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• Black Rite

  Pharaoh had a brother, twin to the root Two of them there doted on Only one head fits the crown Two side by side indistinguishable  Undecipherable as an hieroglyph Equal beloved, taught noble ways and bred for rule Memphian atrocities a black rite A ceremony unbecoming Becoming Pharaoh Child made catamite, how to destroy angels…

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  21st Aug 2023

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