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  • Place Sketch: Cruxham

    Cruxham is a small city sprawled over three hills. It is surrounded by the massive Cruxham timberlands, the largest and last remaining in the deforested Lowlands zone. Unfortunately, the timberlands have not made Cruxham prosperous. Soft evergreens have few uses in building, certainly no high-value ones. Their primary use, and the region’s key export, is…

  • The Undiscovered Self

    “The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt…

  • Urantia Part II

    The tea connection, the current known state of the Urantian nation, and concluding links.

  • Machine Learning Sonnet no. 13

    Terrible service provided. Was very satisfied of the expense. Seasoned sausage and drain. My inaugural post. Pool and bar image gallery. Many weak men lied. I mod in that category. More well known pattern. Imperfect is what that would truly appreciate them. Potato or tomato? Battle the swinging sheet of an otherwise nice suit. Gross…

  • Gervasio Gallardo

    High-brow bird portraitry.

  • Machine Learning Sonnet no. 12

    Vengeance is here. Whose home is a show. Crawlspace moisture barrier warfare. Type Y to get the ballast switch plate. More shorts for working outside in the local scene. You swag giveaway winner. Hear and see my point. Birch bark canoe. No suggestions for my heat not working? They neither hasten their own breed. Roughly…

  • Adam Lupton

    1987 – Present, Brooklyn. A living artist working out of NYC. His brushwork combines non-traditional paint applications, printmaking, and stamps, for example, to communicate the artist’s personal experiences in living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the rituals that make the days.  His website is here.

  • St. Croix Estates

    Lost world blues.

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 11

    No plane ride to take. Finally fixed the comma used After cleaning and brushing her teeth. Second row center. Get his ass handed to you here. It could be life-size. And as reliable as it should. Ram your bumper car into a boat dock. And please appreciate that the president expects us. Please tame me!…

  • The Palmetto Papers Chapters One to Ten

    Beacon is Lit: Ten Chapter milestone on Royal Road.

  • Machine Learning Sonnet No. 10

    You will pass away today, or you will contact me immediately. The stars are the gift of the streets. Confocal and virtual reality. Amazing day today and it stayed frozen in time. What a personal and famous formula. Profane perfection of thought. With Man standing behind the gate. The finite number in macro. The beautiful…

  • Character Sketch: Magdalinda Usher

    Magdalinda is the Dowager of House Usher. She is one of few members of the Old Regime whose lot was dramatically improved by the Good Revolution.  Magdalinda Usher was born to the lesser branch of House Usher. She grew up at the House’s Spital Fields estate, a league away from the Cruxham seat. The First…

  • Joseph Magnaini

    July 12, 1912 – January 23, 1992 An Italian-born American artist and illustrator. He is best known for his collaborations with Ray Bradbury. I prefer illustration, hand-drawn, over painting most of the time. This is no exception. The dynamism is impeccable.

  • Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy, 1985 War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. Judge Holden Three hundred and fifty pages of frontier violence and depravity. A novel about the American West that manages to avoid being a Western to the point of Anti. Essentially depicting the lifestyles…

  • Urantia: Bureaucracy of the Cosmos

    My curiosity in Urantia, (curiosity, not to be mistaken with interest), was entirely due to their very tidy-looking book. I’ve been interested in cult theories, the occult, and all other things arcane or esoteric for a few years now. Most of the books look like they were made by Ren Faire workers. This whole Mystical…

  • Character Sketch: Rose Dion

    Rose was born the first daughter of House Celeste four years before the start of the Good Revolution. House Celeste was one of two landholding powers in Auview Island. It had been the smaller of them, but not without considerable resources. During the revolution, the House’s few members were arrested on accusations that they had…