Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae
@perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social
Jackdaws flitting through the echoing halls of an ill-furnished mind.
Editorial/admin at @bibliorefuses
Paradoxography at a snail's pace
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Editorial/admin at @bibliorefuses
Paradoxography at a snail's pace
Links: https://linktr.ee/perfusedwithsigns
Good morning! Nice to have a bank-holiday start to the week. I finished Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) yesterday evening - terrific, as expected. Today, I will be combining work and pleasure, editing a WIP by @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social.
April 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Good morning! Nice to have a bank-holiday start to the week. I finished Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) yesterday evening - terrific, as expected. Today, I will be combining work and pleasure, editing a WIP by @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social.
It's #WorldPetryDay, so here is a poem with a splendid message from Stevie Smith.
March 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's #WorldPetryDay, so here is a poem with a splendid message from Stevie Smith.
Good morning to you! I hope that your week has got off to a good start. In between playing catch-up with outdoor tasks (courtesy of astounding & continuing lack of rain), I'm having my brain re-wired by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Absolution.
March 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Good morning to you! I hope that your week has got off to a good start. In between playing catch-up with outdoor tasks (courtesy of astounding & continuing lack of rain), I'm having my brain re-wired by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Absolution.
Had to abandon bread-making to answer the door a short while ago: the postie delivering my prize! And not only did I get a splendid book of reproductions, it came with a covering letter incorporating an exclusive original artwork by @ianrpearsall.bsky.social 😁
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Had to abandon bread-making to answer the door a short while ago: the postie delivering my prize! And not only did I get a splendid book of reproductions, it came with a covering letter incorporating an exclusive original artwork by @ianrpearsall.bsky.social 😁
Yes, definitely Monday, no escaping from it, sorry...
Just finished The Future of the 'Classical' by Salvatore Settis; just started Treatises on Dust by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social (pub. @swanriverpress.bsky.social}. Under the Parthenon one minute, under a certain old street lamp the next.
#Books
Just finished The Future of the 'Classical' by Salvatore Settis; just started Treatises on Dust by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social (pub. @swanriverpress.bsky.social}. Under the Parthenon one minute, under a certain old street lamp the next.
#Books
February 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Yes, definitely Monday, no escaping from it, sorry...
Just finished The Future of the 'Classical' by Salvatore Settis; just started Treatises on Dust by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social (pub. @swanriverpress.bsky.social}. Under the Parthenon one minute, under a certain old street lamp the next.
#Books
Just finished The Future of the 'Classical' by Salvatore Settis; just started Treatises on Dust by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social (pub. @swanriverpress.bsky.social}. Under the Parthenon one minute, under a certain old street lamp the next.
#Books
You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?
February 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?
But my haul was subsequently supplemented by a surprise Valentine's day present:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
But neither as good
As a book or two.
2/2
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
But neither as good
As a book or two.
2/2
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
But my haul was subsequently supplemented by a surprise Valentine's day present:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
But neither as good
As a book or two.
2/2
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
But neither as good
As a book or two.
2/2
Up in town for a couple of days. primarily to go to the revived Trinity secondhand book sale at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Also @booksupstairs.bsky.social, where tea & cake was indulged in along with book-browsing. I was remarkably restrained, in the circs... 1//2
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Up in town for a couple of days. primarily to go to the revived Trinity secondhand book sale at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Also @booksupstairs.bsky.social, where tea & cake was indulged in along with book-browsing. I was remarkably restrained, in the circs... 1//2
G'morning, & happy Monday! Reading nothing today to keep my brain free of distraction after a re-read of Powell's A Question of Upbringing for this evening's online #MusicOfTime book group hosted by @neglectedbooks.com. Like the sequence as a whole, a work that no amount of re-reading can exhaust.
February 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
G'morning, & happy Monday! Reading nothing today to keep my brain free of distraction after a re-read of Powell's A Question of Upbringing for this evening's online #MusicOfTime book group hosted by @neglectedbooks.com. Like the sequence as a whole, a work that no amount of re-reading can exhaust.
The week hasn't started too badly - more Book Post arrived, so I'm now playing with the full deck of David Herter's First Republic trilogy. I will have to find a hardcover copy of On the Overgrown Path, for the sake of completeness: the revised edn, which I have, is only available as a kindle ebook🙁
January 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The week hasn't started too badly - more Book Post arrived, so I'm now playing with the full deck of David Herter's First Republic trilogy. I will have to find a hardcover copy of On the Overgrown Path, for the sake of completeness: the revised edn, which I have, is only available as a kindle ebook🙁
Good morning! I hope you survived the storm unscathed. I'm reading Atmospheric Disturbances by @helengrantsays.bsky.social in hardback (from @swanriverpress.bsky.social) & Things We Found During the Autopsy by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social on e-reader (from @blaft.bsky.social). Good stuff!
January 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning! I hope you survived the storm unscathed. I'm reading Atmospheric Disturbances by @helengrantsays.bsky.social in hardback (from @swanriverpress.bsky.social) & Things We Found During the Autopsy by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social on e-reader (from @blaft.bsky.social). Good stuff!
#BookPost! Much relieved as I ordered it direct from UK publisher & was resigned to the possibility that it might never actually arrive because Brexit. But no trouble at all. It has now itself disappeared from publisher's legacy books website, so I may even have snagged the last copy. 1/2 #Booksky
January 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Good morning! In print, I am working - or should that be dreaming? - my way very slowly (it's that kind of book) through Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet; on the e-reader, I've got Reggie Oliver's The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories, from the reliably excellent Tartarus Press.
January 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Good morning! In print, I am working - or should that be dreaming? - my way very slowly (it's that kind of book) through Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet; on the e-reader, I've got Reggie Oliver's The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and Other Strange Stories, from the reliably excellent Tartarus Press.
Then it was over to @blaft.bsky.social for two books of short stories by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social (Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings & Things We Found During the Autopsy) & a translation of a 1957 Urdu pulp thriller (Doctor Dread) by Ibne Safi. 2/3
January 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Then it was over to @blaft.bsky.social for two books of short stories by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social (Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings & Things We Found During the Autopsy) & a translation of a 1957 Urdu pulp thriller (Doctor Dread) by Ibne Safi. 2/3
It's my birthday today & since several lovely people have supplied cash/book tokens, I'm buying myself some ebook pressies. From Tartarus Press, two books of strange stories: The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver, & Herald of the Hidden by Mark Valentine. 📚 1/3
January 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It's my birthday today & since several lovely people have supplied cash/book tokens, I'm buying myself some ebook pressies. From Tartarus Press, two books of strange stories: The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini by Reggie Oliver, & Herald of the Hidden by Mark Valentine. 📚 1/3
Was up in town, staying at the parental mansion, where I found under the Christmas tree a present left for me by a sibling. Yes, the Bibliothèque des Refusés book-present haul has acquired another gem from @swanriverpress.bsky.social! 📚🎄🎁
December 29, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Was up in town, staying at the parental mansion, where I found under the Christmas tree a present left for me by a sibling. Yes, the Bibliothèque des Refusés book-present haul has acquired another gem from @swanriverpress.bsky.social! 📚🎄🎁
"I'm driving home for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces"
December 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
"I'm driving home for Christmas, I can't wait to see their faces"
Me facing 2025.
December 21, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Me facing 2025.
A very satisfying afternoon at the brilliant @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social #IndieBookshop, picking up pre-ordered books along with a couple that caught my fancy on the shelves. Won't post cover pics as some are presents, but 👇 is a selfie present. Hope you're a good loser @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
A very satisfying afternoon at the brilliant @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social #IndieBookshop, picking up pre-ordered books along with a couple that caught my fancy on the shelves. Won't post cover pics as some are presents, but 👇 is a selfie present. Hope you're a good loser @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social
Good morning! I hope the week has got off to a good beginning for you. I've just started Malarkoi by @alexpheby.bsky.social, and also have Ghostly Tales by J.S. Le Fanu on the e-reader.
December 16, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Good morning! I hope the week has got off to a good beginning for you. I've just started Malarkoi by @alexpheby.bsky.social, and also have Ghostly Tales by J.S. Le Fanu on the e-reader.
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
He definitely qualifies as a national treasure. It is entirely fitting that he is probably the only head of state in the world to have had tea-cosies rather than statues made in his honour.
November 3, 2024 at 4:26 PM
He definitely qualifies as a national treasure. It is entirely fitting that he is probably the only head of state in the world to have had tea-cosies rather than statues made in his honour.
If you see this, post a ghost.
June 15, 2024 at 2:25 PM
If you see this, post a ghost.
Some wonderful book post arrived today from @swanriverpress.bsky.social - an object of beauty and distinction, with or without its jacket.
#books #BookPost #MarkValentine
#books #BookPost #MarkValentine
May 28, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Some wonderful book post arrived today from @swanriverpress.bsky.social - an object of beauty and distinction, with or without its jacket.
#books #BookPost #MarkValentine
#books #BookPost #MarkValentine
I saw this! So now I’m posting something yellow! Now you! (If you see this, post something yellow)
May 21, 2024 at 6:40 AM
I saw this! So now I’m posting something yellow! Now you! (If you see this, post something yellow)