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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

Good book, great introductory essay on the use of translations in classic WEIRD TALES.

Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · 2d

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 2d

lunch time has produced another hastily written and totally unedited musings about classic weird fic over on the blog! this time, i go on and on about Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," from Weird Tales 1939! read it, why don't ya?
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ACAB Includes Strained Pulp #37: “Far Below” by Robert Barbour Johnson, Weird Tales v 34 n 1, 1939

Trying to do these little free writing essay/dissections a bit more frequently because a) it is Hallowe’en season, after all, and b) it seems like we’re in another round of “socia…

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 2d

I found it easier to drive in the Cascades than in town when it snowed

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 2d

Karl Kofoed's interior art for D. D. Storm's "Mud/Aurora" in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (November 1981)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Two humanoids walk past what looks like a large vegetal structure with a small lizard-like creature (with wings) on top. There are. various flowing plants with their flowers aimed at the people.

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 7d

You can read "On the Marionette Theater" a short philosophical dialog in which Kleist radically challenges our commonsense notions of human volition, over at Paradise Almanac: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/on-the-mar...

On the Marionette Theater by Heinrich von Kleist

A translation from the Berliner Abendblätter

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social · 2d

For spooky season, we're offering 25% off of Night Fears, our anthology of weird fiction in translation, edited by
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...

Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation

With its unique blend of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Weird Tales was the quintessential pulp magazine of the early 20th century. While classic American writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert...

paradiseeditions.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 2d

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sakajun @sakajun.bsky.social · 3d

死にゆくミノタウロス

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david c. porter (NTTN) @davidcporter.net · 7d

now in Garden Scenery, a story about a memory, burning away

Door Opening, Burning Away

A story about a memory.

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 7d

go read this immediately:

Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 7d

You can read "On the Marionette Theater" a short philosophical dialog in which Kleist radically challenges our commonsense notions of human volition, over at Paradise Almanac: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/on-the-mar...

On the Marionette Theater by Heinrich von Kleist

A translation from the Berliner Abendblätter

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 7d

You can read "On the Marionette Theater" a short philosophical dialog in which Kleist radically challenges our commonsense notions of human volition, over at Paradise Almanac: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/on-the-mar...

On the Marionette Theater by Heinrich von Kleist

A translation from the Berliner Abendblätter

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 7d

On this day in 1810, Heinrich von Kleist published the first issue of the Berliner Abendblätter, the first daily newspaper in the city. Though it only lasted until March the following year, many of Kleist's best known writings appeared in its pages:

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 8d

A fascinating lecture on what is probably the first séance held in North America: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV7n...

Fall Lecture Series - September 18, 2025 Session

YouTube video by Ephrata Cloister

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 14d

“Each portion of matter may be conceived as a garden, and as pond full of fish.” Leibniz, quoted in Deleuze’s The Fold

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 15d

For the Almanac, I wrote about Lafcadio Hearn and the value of publishing a “bad” translation: open.substack.com/pub/paradise...

Why Publish a Bad Translation?

Because it's better than having no translation at all

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Sir Tom @sirtomg.bsky.social · 15d

Eines Morgens riechst du den Herbst.
Es ist noch nicht kalt; es ist nicht windig:
es hat sich eigentlich gar nichts geändert – und doch alles.

Kurt Tucholsky

Eine Kastanie, die zur Hälfte noch in ihrer Hülle steckt,

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Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 23d

really want to encourage people to read about the care, thought, and hard work Matthew puts into making Paradise Edition books such lovely things

Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 25d

For the Almanac, I wrote about charming cicada folklore from Japan and the difficulties of typesetting haiku: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/how-can-yo...

How can you read a haiku?

On the difficulties of typesetting small poetic forms from other languages

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 25d

For the Almanac, I wrote about charming cicada folklore from Japan and the difficulties of typesetting haiku: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/how-can-yo...

How can you read a haiku?

On the difficulties of typesetting small poetic forms from other languages

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 25d

For the Almanac, I wrote about charming cicada folklore from Japan and the difficulties of typesetting haiku: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/how-can-yo...

How can you read a haiku?

On the difficulties of typesetting small poetic forms from other languages

www.paradise-almanac.net

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 27d

It will!

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 27d

Proofs for The Parson in Jubilee have been approved, and the world will have another book by Jean Paul in English, my translation, in a few months:

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Gnomon Chronicles @gnomonchronicles.bsky.social · 29d

"Freight Will Continue To Drag Itself Across The Patient Earth"

is an #anagram of

"Teleological Transporter: Weightiest Traffic, Handiest Hunt"

Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 29d

A sentence quoted in an otherwise bland book about personal finance: "Freight will continue to drag itself across the patient earth."

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · 29d

A sentence quoted in an otherwise bland book about personal finance: "Freight will continue to drag itself across the patient earth."

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Gnomon Chronicles @gnomonchronicles.bsky.social · Sep 5

#anagrams

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Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social · Sep 5

No entry for Paradise Almanac today. I'm working on a longer investigation into a paid "AI" translation service and will have that available for everyone to read next week. I think it'll be worth the wait.

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