Friday 31 December 2021
Wednesday 29 December 2021
Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi by Enrico Bertone
Leggende e Credenze delle Alpi Piemontesi:Storie di Demoni e di Santi, di Despoti e di Amanti, di Belve e di Spiriti
by Enrico Bertone
Tuesday 28 December 2021
The Villa and the Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1914 - 1924 by Elinor Mordaunt
The Villa and the Vortex:
Supernatural Stories, 1914 - 1924
by Elinor Mordaunt
edited with an introduction and notes by Melissa Edmundson
Monday 27 December 2021
Friday 24 December 2021
Monday 13 December 2021
Saturday 11 December 2021
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
Saturday 4 December 2021
Sunday 21 November 2021
Monday 15 November 2021
Sunday 14 November 2021
Wednesday 10 November 2021
Monday 1 November 2021
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Sunday 24 October 2021
Monday 11 October 2021
Saturday 9 October 2021
Tuesday 28 September 2021
Saturday 25 September 2021
Saturday 11 September 2021
Sunday 5 September 2021
Monday 16 August 2021
Sunday 15 August 2021
"The Leviathan" by Rosie Andrews
The Leviathan
by Rosie Andrews
She is awake. And I must remind myself of how it began. The end of all things. It was a time of witches, it was a time of saints, a time when rabbits hunted foxes, when children came into the world without their heards, and kings lost theirs on the scaffold. The world was turned upside down, or so some said… now, less than a hundred years after men and magic began to drift apart, we walk a new earth. We have become reasonable, and cleave to our certainties as once we cleaved to our kings. Now, the buried stories are dismissed as old wives’ tales, exaggerations, falsehoods. But still they bubble through the cracks, clinging on, refusing to go down into the dark. They develop strange qualities, words stored for too long. In the dim light of my small study, never bright enough now, I lay them down in honest black ink, but they are past their bloom…
Thursday 12 August 2021
Tuesday 10 August 2021
Wednesday 4 August 2021
Saturday 31 July 2021
Sunday 25 July 2021
Sunday 18 July 2021
Sunday 11 July 2021
Monday 5 July 2021
Sunday 4 July 2021
Sunday 27 June 2021
Saturday 26 June 2021
Saturday 19 June 2021
Sunday 6 June 2021
Saturday 5 June 2021
Saturday 15 May 2021
Sunday 9 May 2021
Sunday 2 May 2021
Saturday 24 April 2021
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
(Translated by Adrian Nathan West)
A book review
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Walking with Bohr, Heisenberg had his first intuition of the radical otherness of the subatomic world. “If a mere particle of dust contains billions of atoms,” Bohr said to him as they were scaling the massifs of the Harz range, “what possible way is there to talk meaningfully of something so small?” The physicist – like the poet – should not describe the facts of the world, but rather generate metaphors and mental connections. From that summer onwards, Heisenberg understood that to apply concepts of classical physics such as position, velocity and momentum to a subatomic particle was sheer madness. That aspect of nature required a completely new language.