What colour is glaukopis in the film anyway

Back from the shops. - I've not read Guy's stories before. - I loved Tony's 'Fountain in the Forest'. This is the follow-up. Expect more surreal noir/political/musical shenanigans. - Calvino: Calvino. - The McCracken is my own copy so I can scrawl 'Yes!' all over the pages.

650 years since The Pied Piper did his thing. So... Here's my song Pay the Piper.

Art Ensemble of Chicago "Thème De Yoyo"

Day of the Heavy Sight

"Telemachus' Day Off."

The Guns of Telemachus.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026: Jerry's Map Section N.VI jerrysmap.com

Is there going to be a sequel - The Heroes of Telemachus?

Tele’s Heroes

Don't Telemachus

Somebody's going home with Twenty Minutes of Silence

On this day, 2012, I found a horse that could read

Fabulous piece of music

ELF UHR.

This excellent painting was also used as cover art for a Penguin Classics edition of MALDOROR

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wow www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Next up: historically accurate Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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First book sold today: Z for Zachariah

"We don't seem to be any nearer to the island, skipper"

My favorite part is when you see the rowers in the back

Ite capellae, venit Hesperus, ite capellae.

Comrades, I present to you THE DREAM MINE.

Maybe they used Motian Capture.

Bread and Serkis

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Today's newsletter is a 30th anniversary look back at two Ornette Coleman albums that have been out of print almost that long, SOUND MUSEUM: HIDDEN MAN and SOUND MUSEUM: THREE WOMEN: burningambulance.substack.com/p/ornette-co...

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

man "Read the synopsis of this" woman "Did you just say sign-opsis lol" uh oh "You Be the Judge"

MRS BENNET: *unsubtle winking at Elizabeth and Kitty for ten minutes* KITTY, finally: Why do you keep winking at me? MRS BENNET: NO I AM NOT.

reminder of a major event in 2027 (see you at the marathon read-through!) sonofabook.blogspot.com

UGH

saying about almost everything: this reminds me of something else

English embroiderers have been hard at work, finally finishing the Bayeux Tapestry off properly.

1000's of lovely waiters.

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Rise of the Infanta

See it Say it Sorted

Tuesday, July 21, 2026: Jerry's Map Section M.VI jerrysmap.com

This is somebody I've never read, BUT at a previous place I would occasionally meet the wine writer Malcolm Gluck, whose first words to me would always be "Have you read Wolf Solent yet?" I still haven't.

Obviously, don’t buy it on Taxdodgers.com but this book changed my life. Powys is the greatest 20th Century writer that many folks haven’t read or heard of. This is a GREAT book. ❤️❤️❤️ #BookSky💙📚

in Pride and Prejudice two seaside locations are marked as places of sin: Ramsgate and Brighton. Is this just an English thing, or is everybody like this about the seaside... and why?

Only another eighteen hours of Beach to go

Years ago I enjoyed poems by JH Prynne. His death moved me to read him more systematically. A revelation. I encountered anew the rigour & abandon, brio & determined care, utter originality & deep rootedness in literary history that constitute a truly vocational poet. Here is my thread-essay 1/104

Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life