|
Post by cauldronbrewer on Nov 27, 2022 19:20:32 GMT
Quincunx is also a term in astrology, a position relationship between zodiacal signs and celestial bodies, an angle aspect of 150 degrees that is considered difficult, hard, or challenging. What with "quincunx" and "syzygy," astrologers must do well at Scrabble.
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Nov 27, 2022 21:46:27 GMT
Thanks. Over the years I have been very interested in the synchronicity aspects (not its dependence on cause and effect) of astrology. Planetary transits, progressions, grand trines etc. Incidentally, I have just this minute finished reviewing ( here) WDLM’s BAD COMPANY ghost story. I don’t fully understand it. Do you? I have not read "Bad Company" yet. In the 90's I was quite interested in astrology, primarily in grasping the basics of the birth chart, as a complement to psychology. And while it is helpful in giving an overview a person's inner energy setup, both of the harmonies and frictions, it is difficult to practically apply this knowledge to actually overcome disharmonies, because they are so deeply ingrained. Trying to shuffle around and better organize conflictingly aspected energies, they will eventually stubbornly find their way back into the same old issues. The horoscope can admittedly help find and encourage paths of living that actually favor development of one's more difficult aspects in fruitful ways, because chafing can be an asset in some situation, not least in creativity. In the end I found astrology took too much time, without giving back enough useful reward, so I lost interest in it. It is still good to have some understanding of it, when mundane affairs or social encounters get too confused and bewildering. But I find that art and literature is ultimately a more enjoyable and rewarding way to spend my time.
|
|
|
Post by weirdmonger on Nov 28, 2022 5:25:10 GMT
In the 90's I was quite interested in astrology, primarily in grasping the basics of the birth chart, as a complement to psychology. And while it is helpful in giving an overview a person's inner energy setup, both of the harmonies and frictions, it is difficult to practically apply this knowledge to actually overcome disharmonies, because they are so deeply ingrained. Trying to shuffle around and better organize conflictingly aspected energies, they will eventually stubbornly find their way back into the same old issues. The horoscope can admittedly help find and encourage paths of living that actually favor development of one's more difficult aspects in fruitful ways, because chafing can be an asset in some situation, not least in creativity. In the end I found astrology took too much time, without giving back enough useful reward, so I lost interest in it. It is still good to have some understanding of it, when mundane affairs or social encounters get too confused and bewildering. But I find that art and literature is ultimately a more enjoyable and rewarding way to spend my time. Fascinating thanks. I think I progressed through a similar pattern. My astrology heyday was the 70’s, and I think its unquestionable correlations helped frame what I do now with art and fiction.
|
|
|
Post by weirdmonger on Dec 2, 2022 11:42:56 GMT
Late
“Even the beauty of a thing was its imperishable sadness.”
This is the utterly sad and dangerous letter (dangerous for any reading it, even today, and no wonder it was rejected as a story at the galley-proof stage), a letter written by a man to his male friend about what had happened and was due to happen after his wife left him for another, a third, man, and the way how such lost love created revenge as this now late letter-writer — with mixed feelings, mixed motives and, importantly, unreliable narrations — works us towards a final meeting with his wife at a country style.
|
|
|
Post by weirdmonger on Dec 2, 2022 22:24:16 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Dec 7, 2022 0:52:29 GMT
You seem rather carefree, and not to take most things very seriously. But I would warn you to tread warily. I don't know what the hell you did here. What buttons you pushed, or what curious vectors you manipulated. But it is some form of evil alchemy. At the same time I am interested to see what further madness you may call forth in similar way.
|
|
|
Post by andydecker on Dec 7, 2022 8:56:10 GMT
You seem rather carefree, and not to take most things very seriously. But I would warn you to tread warily. I don't know what the hell you did here. What buttons you pushed, or what curious vectors you manipulated. But it is some form of evil alchemy. At the same time I am interested to see what further madness you may call forth in similar way. The angles are wrong.
|
|
|
Post by samdawson on Dec 7, 2022 12:24:50 GMT
The saxons will be along shortly to put them right
|
|
|
Post by Jojo Lapin X on Dec 7, 2022 19:26:13 GMT
Just for Knygathin.
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Dec 8, 2022 16:43:56 GMT
Thank you! Your grotesquery surprises, and shocks me. I am glad you could reuse some of the flowers for this new arrangement, along with some dubious foods mixed in, sausage and bacon, or whatever it is, grafted onto the flesh of characters. Isn't that lovely! This one seems inspired by Vance and Lovecraft. I see Pnume in the middle, and the Outsider on the right, ... or perhaps that is Walter de la Mare, judging by his hat, about to feed a liver into the hole before the Pnume's stomach.
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Dec 8, 2022 16:54:29 GMT
Yes, nightmarish. Gives new dimension to freak show. What "lovely" shoes. (I hope Mary Poppins doesn't trip over her right one.) And the little girl's salamander hands! I believe I saw something similar in a hospital once, but rejected it.
|
|
|
Post by Knygathin on Dec 9, 2022 12:05:55 GMT
The saxons will be along shortly to put them right Perhaps an Aickmanesque treatment is required.
|
|
|
Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Mar 10, 2023 16:21:23 GMT
These photos are marvellous. Of course I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Bertrand Russell, despite claiming to be a feminist he would sexually assault any pretty women he was near. There is a terrible story by the Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti concerning him at a party that I can't repeat but you can look it up using the words "bowling ball". He also, despite criticising the logic of the female philosopher Constance Jones as outdated, stole several of her ideas as his own. Wittgenstein said of him, "Russell’s books should be bound in two colours…those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them." Russell seemed to be confused with Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
|
|