Rimbaud

Montaigne on the unruliness of the posterior #BookSky

A medieval tapestry depicting a captured unicorn, and a Gallo-Roman statue of a beheaded Cernunnos, both rediscovered in the village of Verteuil-sur-Charente.

Paris statues by night

delicious impression of France from Margaret Anderson's 'The Fiery Fountains' (1951) #booksky

A film I enjoyed recently: Robert Bresson's 'Lancelot du Lac' (1974).

Almost the antithesis 'Excalibur', it strips out much of the sword and sorcery associated with modern treatments of chivalric romance, but what's left is something uniquely hypnotic and altogether quite strange.

Polite fella

Detail of beheading from the Pictish Sueno's Stone.

#StandingStoneSunday

John Cowper Powys's "antidote" to Nietzsche.

buried in my saved screenshots:

"The place we occupy seems all the world"

[November] by John Clare

from Paul Goodman's 'Little Prayers and Finite Experience' (1972)

Castlerigg Stone Circle from earlier this year.

#StandingStoneSunday

put on The Boy and the Heron last night. Oozes personality and just sheer storytelling competence.

All the dreamlike sumptuousness of something like Spirited Away but without the need for overcooked feels.

Also this shot was cool:

Ol' Wally Scott, that interminable romancer.

Onibaba

from a morning commute in October. I saw my first stoat a few moments after snapping this.

Titus Groan on audiobook makes for perfect bedtime listening.

Peake's descriptions are so ornate and precisely conceived that they seem almost inseparable from dreams. So many times I have found myself drifting off from the narration to wander around Gormenghast, then waking up hours later.