the hidden country

analog creature in a digital world

[wolveswolves]

By Steffen Weigl

[hellonheelz93]

New Worlds for Old (1971). Swirling cover art by David Johnston.

[m0llymilli0ns]

books read in 2022:

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (3.5/5)

The Women of Troy, by Pat Barker (3/5)

The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (2.5/5)

Regeneration, by Pat Barker (4.5/5)

Rosemary’s Baby, by Ira Levin (5/5)

The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (5/5)

The Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler (3/5)

The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker (3.5/5)

Bashan and I, by Thomas Mann (3.5/5)

A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter (3/5)

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K LeGuin (4/5)

The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (4/5)

Persuasion, by Jane Austen (3/5)

The Peregrine, by JA Baker (3.5/5)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (4/5)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (5/5)

The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim (5/5)

My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante (3/5)

The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford (3.5/5)

The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell (4/5)

Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake (4.5/5)

Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake (4/5)

[dapperseoul]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

AWESOME. NOBODY WATCH IT

[coastgods]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[m0llymilli0ns]

Read in 2021:

Hollow Kingdom, by Kira Buxton (3.5/5)

Blood Bones & Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton (3.5/5)

A Chorus of Stones, by Susan Griffin (4/5)

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K LeGuin (4.5/5)

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, an anthology of stories by James Tiptree Jr (5/5)

The Republic of Love, by Carol Shields (4/5)

The Serpent’s Tooth, by Diana L Paxson (3/5)

Klee Wyck, by Emily Carr (3.5/5)

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (4/5)

The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien (11/10)

[anarcho-smarmyism]

[osailorboy]

[medusabraids]

same energy

[luciferlaughs]

Evelyn McHale is arguably the most iconic Empire State Building suicide victim. On May 1st, 1947, the young and pretty woman took a leap from the 86th floor Observation Deck and landed on a United Nations limousine parked on the street below. Photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash and captured this photo of her just four minutes after her death. The car’s metal folded like sheets and framed her head and arms. Everything about the elegance of her pose—from her gloved hand clutching at her pearl necklace to her gently crossed ankles—suggests why her death was given the title of ‘’the most beautiful suicide’’. 

In a black pocket book next to her coat contained a suicide note which read:

‘’I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.’’

[weebsandwobs]

That’s him!

[m0llymilli0ns]

Read in 2020:

Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon (3.5/5) The Overstory, by Richard Powers (3.5/5) Dune, by Frank Herbert (3/5) The Devil in the White City, by Eric Larson (4/5) Feral, by George Monbiot (5/5) The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker (5/5) Sapiens: a brief history of humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari (3/5) Or What You Will, by Jo Walton (3/5) Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke (3/5)

[yesterdaysprint]

The National Police Gazette, December 30, 1899

[budacub]

“HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD THE HOLY GHOST CUM IN YOU”

[cool-bacon-dude]

If you watch this you go directly to hell

[flym]

Saved by the Bats by Jon Carling

[humorteliblee]

[gar-dev-oirs-deactivated2018111]

[im-the-batmann]

What the fuck did my own two eyes perceive on this day??