It is short story time.

( The Changing Rooms )

So I went to Leeds to buy some leather gloves. I foolishly passed by a CD shop. I left with some CDs and some cloth gloves. In other news... *Suddenly stares horror-struck* The black pit! the nameless cylinder! The Elder Pharos! The eyes in Darkness! THE WINDOWLESS SOLIDS WITH FIVE DIMENSIONS! THE ORIGINAL, THE ETERNAL, THE UNDYING! TEKELI-LI! ( Read more... )

I bought the thoth tarot card deck today... on reaching home, I shuffled it and drew a card - it was the five of wands, strife. Very true...

on the walls; a red banner ( Read more... )

The room is full to capacity - which isn't much, but adds to the already simmering energy of the place. There is alot of intelligence here - Nietzsche is good at bringing people out... the lecturers: philosophy lecturers sitting safe in their analytics, cultural lecturers burning with a strange curiosity, the awesome shrew-like literature lecturer ( Read more... )

And I had a nightmare of a demon so fearful and full of torture and horror that as I lay half awake with my arm across my face, I had to say the Lord's Prayer to banish him and feel he would not be present there when I lowered my hands...

And yet, and yet, it is also engaging in a mysterious way, and Alison is a character who... reminds me of alot of girls who I'm attracted to... O existentialist girls, so fearful of death and beautiful and unhappy!

Well, two police officers have been shot on the street that comes off mine. One of them is dead. This is not going to make things awesomer in Bradford!

Could anyone help me with the book I'm reading - The Magus? It does not seem like a good book to me, and yet it has fairly high renown etc. Basically the main character appears quite juvenile and annoying, the dialogue between him and the old man is quite pretentious and annoying, not to mention imperfect, and alot of the intellectually creative ( Read more... )

The miserable cold wetness of autumn has shifted into the honest cold whiteness of winter frost and pale sunlight.

Edit: Wait! This could be a haiku...

Cold autumnal winds
Shift into the white winter
Cold frost and pale sun.