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paracelsus1966.bsky.social
Writer, maker of films. Weird, gothic, mediaeval, uncanny. Edinburgh.
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Vance is an a-hole.

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We're very sorry to hear the news about the death of poet Michael Longley. He will be sorely missed but he leaves an incredible legacy through his wonderful poetry. Our sincere condolences to Edna, their children and all his family and friends. RIP Michael www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Michael Longley has died. A very dear soul indeed.

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The Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #WomensArt

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Getting ready to start digitising and restoring the #lovecraft documentary. We’re doing some of the footage of Frank Belknap Long, and Stuart Gordon, first.

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Yesterday, the 34x convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, defamer, fraudster, and twice impeached Trump was given the keys to government again. Today, Louisiana is experiencing its first ever blizzard. Climate change? God’s wrath? You decide.

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Good morning. Today we celebrate the America of Walt Whitman, Sitting Bull, Rosa Parks and Woody Guthrie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3V-... Music: newly-discovered recording of The Waterboys playing Woody's THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND in 1988.

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Master criminals are among us.

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One of the great vacuum cleaner salesman novels. #julianmaclarenross

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It’s that “throw the damn ball” moment!

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Restoring an unseen (well, screened only once) documentary about H. P. Lovecraft.

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Book of the Week: Who the hell is David Vann? newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/04/b...

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The Dog at Clambercrown by Jocelyn Brooke. Part Italian Journey, part psychogeographical memoir of childhood. One of the best things I read this year.

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Bathtubs and fallen boughs.

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I can find no flaw in this proposal

submitted 86 days ago • 61 comments

The new Reggie Oliver, This Haunted Heaven, is superb.

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Complaining to Virgin Media yet again. Even as we try to leave, they are still being awful.

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A Vast Shadow House, my film about the work of David Lindsay, screens at Unit 4 in Hawick, Scottish Borders, 26 November @ 1900.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

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This.

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My film about David Lindsay, A Vast Shadow House, will screen at Unit 4 in Hawick on 26 November. More details to follow....

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Our rivers are dying. Our lakes are dying. This isn't an accident. Nobody has been jailed for this. They get paid bonuses. #Windermere #LoughNeagh @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/yorks...

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‘Like Rilke, John managed to be earthy while expanding our imaginative reach into the angelic orders. His poems acted on one like a drug… one might emerge blinking and wondering, “Where have I just been?”’ —Kathleen Jamie on John Burnside www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024...

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What’s up, you ask? Tilly on the pelmet!

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“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.” —Philip Pullman Celebrating the Centenary of David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (2020) www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Hp...

submitted 365 days ago • 1 comment

Bedtime reading.

submitted 366 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.

submitted 370 days ago • 3 comments

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945 Robert Bresson (Maria Casares was w Camus for many years)

submitted 370 days ago • 3 comments

"Put bluntly, fascism is a loser’s ideology, a smothering emotional safety blanket for deeply insecure and broken people (mostly men), which only makes their problems worse until it destroys them and everyone around them."

submitted 370 days ago • 46 comments