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hiragana

Japanese Hiragana I love this relaxed looping script, originally called onnade, “women’s hand.” As practiced by Otagaki Rengetsu:

mystic bedside manner

The Cuckoo (Kukushka) from Interview with Alexander Rogozhkin, director: Did you carefully study the Sami culture, their rites, shamanism, etc.? I knew something, I studied something, but then I gave up and trusted my...

unserious-seeming goings-on

some by jackson mac low Right away, some give enough of anything to anyone, & some do things to make a meal …

application of gray

Jasper Johns: Gray … the exhibition tracks Johns’s application of gray for more than five decades—an investigation that provides a framework for understanding the development of the artist’s entire oeuvre. Every one of Johns’s...

new item for blogroll

River of Play Ecopoetry, Ecopoetics & the Life of a Water Poet See also The Language Habitat: an Ecopoetry Manifesto, James Engelhardt

chinese web novels

Consequently, more and more internet authors now prefer web to print publishing. To promote sales, publishing companies often require the author to keep a novel’s ending exclusive to its print version. In the past,...

feral children

Marie Angélique Memmie LeBlanc, the Maid of Châlons It was noticed that her thumbs were very large, and this was afterwards explained by her as arising from her habit of springing like a squirrel...