Perry Earl
@perryfrancis.bsky.social
Writer at Substack.
https://estateofmind.substack.com
https://estateofmind.substack.com
Evil eyes on this pooch
May 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Evil eyes on this pooch
The sun had reappeared, so I’ve decided to reread this masterpiece.
Mishima was truly one of a kind.
Mishima was truly one of a kind.
March 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The sun had reappeared, so I’ve decided to reread this masterpiece.
Mishima was truly one of a kind.
Mishima was truly one of a kind.
Reposted by Perry Earl
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
—Gustave Flaubert
—Gustave Flaubert
March 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."
—Gustave Flaubert
—Gustave Flaubert
Here’s a true story about a pair of heroin addicts who starved their children.
Tell me what you think.
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Tell me what you think.
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Smackhead Sausage Rolls
True Stories #1
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February 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s a true story about a pair of heroin addicts who starved their children.
Tell me what you think.
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
Tell me what you think.
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
Cleaned this one up a bit. Not in terms of content, it’s still characteristically macabre and weird, just the sentences.
February 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Cleaned this one up a bit. Not in terms of content, it’s still characteristically macabre and weird, just the sentences.
Sebald would have gotten a Nobel Prize if he never died so tragically. His writing changed the landscape of creative non-fiction.
Enjoyed reading this essay about one of my favourite writers.
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Enjoyed reading this essay about one of my favourite writers.
open.substack.com/pub/fivegood...
Against Sebaldian Melancholy
coming to terms with a method, a mood, and a form-of-life
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February 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sebald would have gotten a Nobel Prize if he never died so tragically. His writing changed the landscape of creative non-fiction.
Enjoyed reading this essay about one of my favourite writers.
open.substack.com/pub/fivegood...
Enjoyed reading this essay about one of my favourite writers.
open.substack.com/pub/fivegood...
published the first essay from my food series. i began at home. recipe included.
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scouse: the antwacky dish of liverpool’s working-class.
food essay #1
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January 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
published the first essay from my food series. i began at home. recipe included.
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
This platform is an echo chamber for X’s bitter exes.
January 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This platform is an echo chamber for X’s bitter exes.
She’s a naughty girl but there is kindness in her heart. If I opened up your head and ran a hot iron around in your brain, I could turn you into someone like her.
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
She’s a naughty girl but there is kindness in her heart. If I opened up your head and ran a hot iron around in your brain, I could turn you into someone like her.
They pull this carp out of the park lake?
December 15, 2024 at 6:48 PM
They pull this carp out of the park lake?
For every static world that you or I impose
Upon the real one must crack at times and new
Patterns from new disorders open like a rose
And old assumptions yield to new sensations.
The Stranger in the wings is waiting for his cue…
—Louis MacNeice
Upon the real one must crack at times and new
Patterns from new disorders open like a rose
And old assumptions yield to new sensations.
The Stranger in the wings is waiting for his cue…
—Louis MacNeice
December 11, 2024 at 9:18 PM
For every static world that you or I impose
Upon the real one must crack at times and new
Patterns from new disorders open like a rose
And old assumptions yield to new sensations.
The Stranger in the wings is waiting for his cue…
—Louis MacNeice
Upon the real one must crack at times and new
Patterns from new disorders open like a rose
And old assumptions yield to new sensations.
The Stranger in the wings is waiting for his cue…
—Louis MacNeice
Is Covid still a thing? Think I’ve got it. Been wrote off for a week.
December 7, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Is Covid still a thing? Think I’ve got it. Been wrote off for a week.
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”
—Ernest Hemingway
—Ernest Hemingway
December 5, 2024 at 7:34 PM
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”
—Ernest Hemingway
—Ernest Hemingway
Felt emotional standing here.
RIP James Bulger 🙏🌹
RIP James Bulger 🙏🌹
December 5, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Felt emotional standing here.
RIP James Bulger 🙏🌹
RIP James Bulger 🙏🌹
Looking forward to reading this one. Been a fan of Robert’s work for a while and glad to see him finally write an extensive work on animism and contain his past writings in a conceptual whole.
Received the first bound proof/ARC of Is A River Alive? today, 3.5 yrs after starting work on it.
Always an exciting waymark in a book’s journey.
Neon-zing meander art by @stanleydonwood.bsky.social
Lovely to hold it in hand: it exists!
Out 1 May next year: dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Always an exciting waymark in a book’s journey.
Neon-zing meander art by @stanleydonwood.bsky.social
Lovely to hold it in hand: it exists!
Out 1 May next year: dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
December 4, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Looking forward to reading this one. Been a fan of Robert’s work for a while and glad to see him finally write an extensive work on animism and contain his past writings in a conceptual whole.
Breakfast of champions.
Fuck them sloppy French scrambled eggs with Crème Fraîche and chopped chives stirred in on a bed of toasted artisan sourdough.
Warbutons bread, Heinz beans, and 4 scrambled eggs that are slightly burned; that’s the real gourmet.
Fuck them sloppy French scrambled eggs with Crème Fraîche and chopped chives stirred in on a bed of toasted artisan sourdough.
Warbutons bread, Heinz beans, and 4 scrambled eggs that are slightly burned; that’s the real gourmet.
December 3, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Breakfast of champions.
Fuck them sloppy French scrambled eggs with Crème Fraîche and chopped chives stirred in on a bed of toasted artisan sourdough.
Warbutons bread, Heinz beans, and 4 scrambled eggs that are slightly burned; that’s the real gourmet.
Fuck them sloppy French scrambled eggs with Crème Fraîche and chopped chives stirred in on a bed of toasted artisan sourdough.
Warbutons bread, Heinz beans, and 4 scrambled eggs that are slightly burned; that’s the real gourmet.
Published a book review of the Liverpool based fantasy novel Weaveworld by Clive Barker on my Substack
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book review: weaveworld by clive barker
dreamscape of liverpool.
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December 1, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Published a book review of the Liverpool based fantasy novel Weaveworld by Clive Barker on my Substack
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
open.substack.com/pub/perrymcg...
Look at this beauty; a US first edition of Death in the Afternoon.
One of best pieces of non fiction ever written. Also works as a lens to understand Tragedy. Hemingway was, at heart, a Tragedian. His main subject was always death.
One of best pieces of non fiction ever written. Also works as a lens to understand Tragedy. Hemingway was, at heart, a Tragedian. His main subject was always death.
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Look at this beauty; a US first edition of Death in the Afternoon.
One of best pieces of non fiction ever written. Also works as a lens to understand Tragedy. Hemingway was, at heart, a Tragedian. His main subject was always death.
One of best pieces of non fiction ever written. Also works as a lens to understand Tragedy. Hemingway was, at heart, a Tragedian. His main subject was always death.
Rereading my copy of A Moveable Feast by Hemingway that I bought in Paris from the Shakespeare and Company book shop.
I read this book while in Paris and Hemingway’s prose accompanied me throughout my stay and undoubtedly infused my experience of the city with a sense of wonder.
I read this book while in Paris and Hemingway’s prose accompanied me throughout my stay and undoubtedly infused my experience of the city with a sense of wonder.
November 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Rereading my copy of A Moveable Feast by Hemingway that I bought in Paris from the Shakespeare and Company book shop.
I read this book while in Paris and Hemingway’s prose accompanied me throughout my stay and undoubtedly infused my experience of the city with a sense of wonder.
I read this book while in Paris and Hemingway’s prose accompanied me throughout my stay and undoubtedly infused my experience of the city with a sense of wonder.
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death”
—Leonardo Da Vinci
—Leonardo Da Vinci
November 27, 2024 at 4:11 PM
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death”
—Leonardo Da Vinci
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Dostoyevsky’s understanding of human morality is unparalleled
November 27, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Dostoyevsky’s understanding of human morality is unparalleled