“Good news for fans of anthropodermic bibliopegy, bibliomaniacs and cannibals alike: tests have revealed that Houghton Library’s copy of Arsène Houssaye’s Des destinées de l’ame (FC8.H8177.879dc) is without a doubt bound in human skin.”
- “ Caveat Lecter” - Houghton Library Blog.
- No doubt the viewing of sigillic devices could produce the atmosphere of the dream in the waking consciousness of one unaccustomed to seeing such scripts.” “With the use of oneiric praxis, sigils of the wake world can be brought to the dreamscape, as well as drawing the dream texts upon the waking consciousness. It is significant that there is a crossover between the experience of legible and illegible scripts in both the waking and dream worlds.” There are times when the oneiric traveller is blest with clarity of vision wherein the characters in the given instance are crystal clear, but such instances are typically rare.
Such figures most often appear to blur before the eyes. “One of the signs which has become a trademark of being in a dream is the inability to read the written word or at other times to decipher numbers on a clock face or elsewhere. “ Dreamscripts in the Waking World” - William Kiesel, The Brooklyn Rail.Even though the Occult doesn’t actually involve that (it’s about mastering your daemons and making contact with your Holy Guardian Angel), they’re just going to make it about that anyway because they’re just…so…hard.” “I have to confess that what I’ve found mindblowing about exploring the Occult is that the church has slandered it as being daemon worship, and because of that, a group of gothed out weirdoes have decided that they love the idea worshipping Satan. “ How to Become a Living Douche! The Impressively Embarrassing Occultism of EA Koetting” - Thad McKraken, disinformation.This is when I head to my studio to sit.”
I no longer recognize my own face and I need to recharge. “After putting myself in too many people’s shoes, and seeing the world through everyone else’s eyes for too long, I start to become a warped and weary alien to myself. “ The Householder’s Guide to Form and Deed” - Scott David Finch (author of A Little World Made Cunningly), Spiral Nature.
Mihai Mihu’s LEGO diorama for “ Lust” from Dante's Inferno
An irregular hodgepodge of links gathered together … Omnium Gatherum for June 11th, 2014