Nathan Slake
@slake.bsky.social
Writer, scientist, dreamer.
Writes words over at: https://slake.substack.com/
Writes words over at: https://slake.substack.com/
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Incredible strength and courage from Zelenskyy. Standing up to a room full of bullies in an orchestrated, stage-managed ambush. Never backing down. Never letting the lies take root. Absolute hero for the ages.
February 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Incredible strength and courage from Zelenskyy. Standing up to a room full of bullies in an orchestrated, stage-managed ambush. Never backing down. Never letting the lies take root. Absolute hero for the ages.
The problem with Bolaño’s 2666 is that having opened its pages—having dared to read the first part and having fallen deep within his prose and felt the mystery and the mythical creep across my skin—I now no longer want to read anything else. Anything at all.
#fiction
#lit-fic
#books
#fiction
#lit-fic
#books
February 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
L— was already there. I had to blink to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Under the clouded night sky, the light blonde of her hair had lost all its colour, making each strand seem grey. She was facing away from me, peering at something. She...
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The only letter she ever sent
or, something that might have happened
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February 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
L— was already there. I had to blink to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. Under the clouded night sky, the light blonde of her hair had lost all its colour, making each strand seem grey. She was facing away from me, peering at something. She...
slake.substack.com/p/the-only-l...
slake.substack.com/p/the-only-l...
December 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM
"Your eyes reflected the light from the stove. No, it wasn't reflected light, but light that dwelled within you."
The City and it's Uncertain Walls—Haruki Murakami.
#booksky
The City and it's Uncertain Walls—Haruki Murakami.
#booksky
December 6, 2024 at 1:14 AM
"Your eyes reflected the light from the stove. No, it wasn't reflected light, but light that dwelled within you."
The City and it's Uncertain Walls—Haruki Murakami.
#booksky
The City and it's Uncertain Walls—Haruki Murakami.
#booksky
Looking for recs for SciFi/SpecFic reads. Something contemporary or perhaps lesser known, and with writing that leans more towards lit fic.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Looking for recs for SciFi/SpecFic reads. Something contemporary or perhaps lesser known, and with writing that leans more towards lit fic.
📚🪐
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Managed to read a lot this year, including one book that has lived in my mind ever since I finished it.
I adore everything about this book. Its intricacy, its prose, the meandering wildness of the plot. Wrote about it with a friend here: thematterhorn.substack.com/p/no-novel-e...
#booksky
#books
I adore everything about this book. Its intricacy, its prose, the meandering wildness of the plot. Wrote about it with a friend here: thematterhorn.substack.com/p/no-novel-e...
#booksky
#books
December 2, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Managed to read a lot this year, including one book that has lived in my mind ever since I finished it.
I adore everything about this book. Its intricacy, its prose, the meandering wildness of the plot. Wrote about it with a friend here: thematterhorn.substack.com/p/no-novel-e...
#booksky
#books
I adore everything about this book. Its intricacy, its prose, the meandering wildness of the plot. Wrote about it with a friend here: thematterhorn.substack.com/p/no-novel-e...
#booksky
#books
I remember the first Indiana Jones game I played (Fate of Atlantis) back in 1992 on an Amiga! Great memories.
Excited there's a new game about to come out, and from MachineGames. Latest trailer is looking good:
youtu.be/TQOJCrQq6hs?...
#games #indianajones
Excited there's a new game about to come out, and from MachineGames. Latest trailer is looking good:
youtu.be/TQOJCrQq6hs?...
#games #indianajones
Official Launch Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
YouTube video by Lucasfilm
youtu.be
December 2, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I remember the first Indiana Jones game I played (Fate of Atlantis) back in 1992 on an Amiga! Great memories.
Excited there's a new game about to come out, and from MachineGames. Latest trailer is looking good:
youtu.be/TQOJCrQq6hs?...
#games #indianajones
Excited there's a new game about to come out, and from MachineGames. Latest trailer is looking good:
youtu.be/TQOJCrQq6hs?...
#games #indianajones
Raw dog simulator. 😅 Madness.
www.rawdogsimulator.com
www.rawdogsimulator.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Raw dog simulator. 😅 Madness.
www.rawdogsimulator.com
www.rawdogsimulator.com
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Gene Wolfe describing a sunset:
“The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.” — Ch. XXVII, BotNS
Painting with words. 🌅
“The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.” — Ch. XXVII, BotNS
Painting with words. 🌅
November 28, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Gene Wolfe describing a sunset:
“The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.” — Ch. XXVII, BotNS
Painting with words. 🌅
“The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.” — Ch. XXVII, BotNS
Painting with words. 🌅
November 29, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Melville was pretty damn impressive with his prose. No wonder he needed such an inkstand.
How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!
#books #booksky
How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!
#books #booksky
November 28, 2024 at 3:59 AM
37°C on the weekend, and now a city shrouded in cloud. #melbourne
November 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
37°C on the weekend, and now a city shrouded in cloud. #melbourne
I wrote a short book review from a fellow writer over on substack, mixed in with some mere morsels of information.
https://slake.substack.com/p/mere-morsels
https://slake.substack.com/p/mere-morsels
August 4, 2023 at 7:15 AM
I wrote a short book review from a fellow writer over on substack, mixed in with some mere morsels of information.
https://slake.substack.com/p/mere-morsels
https://slake.substack.com/p/mere-morsels