Matthew Spencer
@unpaginated.bsky.social
Writer, translator, general semantic drudge. https://paradisealmanc.substack.com/
You've been visited by the STRAWBERRY OF PROSPERITY.
prosperity strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1902
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
You've been visited by the STRAWBERRY OF PROSPERITY.
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really awesome Herman Miller desk I found on FB Marketplace lol
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
really awesome Herman Miller desk I found on FB Marketplace lol
For the Almanac, I wrote about calendars and my interactions with the kinds of animals that appear in calendars: paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/on-calenders
On Calenders
Sculpting time with pictures of cute animals
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November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For the Almanac, I wrote about calendars and my interactions with the kinds of animals that appear in calendars: paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/on-calenders
“I knew what they were feeling, because I felt it too—something swelling within, something that had to be art because art was the last chance they would ever get.”
From Backwardness (Letters and Notebooks 1973-2023) by Garielle Lutz
From Backwardness (Letters and Notebooks 1973-2023) by Garielle Lutz
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I knew what they were feeling, because I felt it too—something swelling within, something that had to be art because art was the last chance they would ever get.”
From Backwardness (Letters and Notebooks 1973-2023) by Garielle Lutz
From Backwardness (Letters and Notebooks 1973-2023) by Garielle Lutz
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strange subterranean commotions
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
strange subterranean commotions
Henry James is underrated as a comic writer
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Henry James is underrated as a comic writer
For the Almanac, I write about so-called Quaker marriages and a Pennsylvania town named after an athlete who never lived in or even visited it. (I'm married now.) paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/self-offic...
Self-Officiation
On getting married in a very Pennsylvanian way in a very Pennsylvanian town
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October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
For the Almanac, I write about so-called Quaker marriages and a Pennsylvania town named after an athlete who never lived in or even visited it. (I'm married now.) paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/self-offic...
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RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.
Another view of the Kleist cover:
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Another view of the Kleist cover:
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goddamn but if @paradiseeditions.bsky.social hasn't knocked it out of the park again
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
goddamn but if @paradiseeditions.bsky.social hasn't knocked it out of the park again
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Out Now: Some Essays by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social) Published in rapid succession during the last year of Kleist's life, these brief but challenging essays present the finest distillation of his philosophical thought: paradiseeditions.net/products/som...
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Out Now: Some Essays by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. @unpaginated.bsky.social) Published in rapid succession during the last year of Kleist's life, these brief but challenging essays present the finest distillation of his philosophical thought: paradiseeditions.net/products/som...
Enjoying Spanish Wikipedia's formatting of unknown birth and death dates: ¿?-¿?
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Enjoying Spanish Wikipedia's formatting of unknown birth and death dates: ¿?-¿?
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Underappreciated deeper cut of the day. In case you're ever curious what Lovecraft wrote about Hemingway, the ground they both stomped over, and when they almost could have met.
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deepcuts.blog/2025/04/30/h...
Harsh Sentences: H. P. Lovecraft v. Ernest Hemingway
It is just possible that Ernest Hemingway knew the name H. P. Lovecraft. Though they moved in very different literary circles and Hemingway was not known to have ever picked up a copy of Weird Tale…
deepcuts.blog
October 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Underappreciated deeper cut of the day. In case you're ever curious what Lovecraft wrote about Hemingway, the ground they both stomped over, and when they almost could have met.
deepcuts.blog/2025/04/30/h...
deepcuts.blog/2025/04/30/h...
Layouts in progress for a new pamphlet of Kleist translations. I'm having a lot of fun with colored type, and it felt appropriate to have fancy OpenType script for "On the Marionette Theater":
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Layouts in progress for a new pamphlet of Kleist translations. I'm having a lot of fun with colored type, and it felt appropriate to have fancy OpenType script for "On the Marionette Theater":
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Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌
October 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌
Late hibiscus and plastic litter in the canal:
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Late hibiscus and plastic litter in the canal:
For the Almanac, I write about autumn fruits, chronic disease, and unfortunately named bands: paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/paradise-d...
Paradise Digest (Early Mid-October)
What I've been reading and listening to, what I've been ingesting these past few weeks.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For the Almanac, I write about autumn fruits, chronic disease, and unfortunately named bands: paradisealmanc.substack.com/p/paradise-d...
Reposted by Matthew Spencer
Good book, great introductory essay on the use of translations in classic WEIRD TALES.
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...
@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
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Good book, great introductory essay on the use of translations in classic WEIRD TALES.
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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?
geoliminal.com/2025/10/06/a...
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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…
geoliminal.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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?
geoliminal.com/2025/10/06/a...
geoliminal.com/2025/10/06/a...
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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
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
October 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
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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
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October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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...
Reposted by Matthew Spencer
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...
@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
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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...
@geoliminal.bsky.social: paradiseeditions.net/products/nig...
Reposted by Matthew Spencer
Reposted by Matthew Spencer
now in Garden Scenery, a story about a memory, burning away
Door Opening, Burning Away
A story about a memory.
gardenscenery.net
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
now in Garden Scenery, a story about a memory, burning away