The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ...but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft
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Edward Topsell, Aegopithecus, from The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents. The Univesity of Northern Iowa had a beautiful three-volume of this.
Summer Treat - Cookie Dough Popsicles: recipe here
[note: Made these in my Zoku and they turned out perfectly]
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British Library, Add MS 47682, detail of f. 11v. Bible (the ‘Holkham Bible Picture Book’) c. 1327-1335
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Dino Robot Box
I had a relative to this guy. The dinosaur head had a robot shell around it, that would pop open as it moved forward. It also had an axe.
The Green Slime - 1968
i thought this was an anime great gatstby cover
the sugoi gatsby
“In my younger and more kawaii years my sempai gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
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The mandala is a template for the mind, a state of peace and order, a resolution of the chaos within. In Jung’s words, “The severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder and confusion of the psychic state—namely, through the construction of a central point to which everything is related.”
A great deal of Jung’s psychotherapy dealt with the interpretation of individual mandalas created by his patients. In addition to the soothing, focusing effect he noted as a result in his patients’ psychological states, there was also a great deal of commonality between the images they created. Patients who had no prior knowledge of mandalas or any other conscious symbolistic expression repeatedly put to paper strikingly similar images in the course of their progress. Jung writes of the significance of these similarities:
“In view of the fact that all the mandalas shown here were new and uninfluenced products, we are driven to the conclusion that there must be a transconscious disposition in every individual which is able to produce the same or very similar symbols at all times and in all places. Since this disposition is usually not a conscious possession of the individual I have called it the collective unconscious, and, as the basis of its symbolical products, I postulate the existence of primordial images, the archetypes.”
Klint Finley
“The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future” Matt Jones wrote in 2009, referencing Archigram‘s Walking City. As I’ve noted before we fill that same role for bacteria.
Food guru Michael Pollan has picked up on the “we’re more bacteria than human” meme and…
Need to re-read The Filth now.