danskjavlarna
Dansk Jävlarna
I am an Attendant of the Borgesian Circulating Depository. Duties: 1. honoring visionary ancients who were centuries or millennia before their time; 2. tilting the game board so as to cast everything in a new light; 3. celebrating allegory and metaphor as scenic shortcuts to wisdom; 4. discovering the macrocosm in the microcosm; 5. measuring non-material forces which nonetheless carry weight (Umberto Eco); 6. tracking extraordinary tempests in mundane teacups; 7. finding mystical analogues to scientific breakthroughs—putting the super into the natural, the other into the worldly, the meta into the physical, the para into the normal, the magical into realism; 8. puzzling over hidden, deeper meaning; 9. carrying the key, even when the lock has been lost; 10. identifying archetypes at play; 11. studying the legend, even when the map is blank; 12. searching through the deepest shadows for the bright light that cast them; 13. delving into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable; 14. photographing background images for the insides of mystery boxes; 15. offering the inscrutable its due scrutiny; 16. endowing branches of Borgesian catacombs; 17. diagramming the sacred syllables in the mumbo jumbo; 18. believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast; 19. building 3D models of M.C. Escher's visual illusions; 20. crafting something out of nothing; 21. designing floor plans for memory palaces; 15. plundering cultural detritus; 16. bringing warmth to fuzzy logic; 17. looking through trompe l'oeil windows; 18. freeing radicals; 19. centering on marginalia; 20. navigating the ocean that roars within the seashell; 21. making the past perfect and the future less tense; 22. seeking a grand unification of hard science, soft science, and ethereal science; 23. resisting the belligerence of ignorance; 24. erecting signs on dotted lines; 25. taking a stand for poetic justice; 26. tracing constellations in the starry-eyed; 27. fighting to cure anhedonia; 28. gettin...
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The best hypnosis imagery I’ve encountered is collected here.
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Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.
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My collection of vintage rabbits is coming along hoppingly.
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Some rather surprising vintage candle imagery.
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Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.
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“Ghosts that draw tight fingers around the present.”
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Dark storytelling that David Lynch merely aspires to: there’s still nothing like Dark Shadows.
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Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.
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Thinking of a cape? Here are some ideas: vintage capes.
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The stamp says “Not to be taken out.”
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From glass coffins to flaming coffins to coffin cars to coffin surfing: a collection of vintage coffin imagery.
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Here's my modest collection of vintage oysters.
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There may very well be seven types of ambiguity, but damned if they’re not all a blur.
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The eagle-eyed might appreciate my collection of vintage eagles.
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These ends are merely a beginning: vintage endpaper designs.
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I've encountered quite a few vintage human giants in the course of my research.
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My collection of vintage rabbits is coming along hoppingly.
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