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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I’m collecting some weird, rare variants of Alice in Wonderland imagery.
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My collection of vintage rabbits is coming along hoppingly.
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See my collection of weird vintage eggs.
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Here are all the vintage images I’ve so far encountered that, for one esoteric reason or other, are categorized as “occult.”
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Here are the vintage crows, ravens, and blackbirds we’ve spoken with.
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A worldly collection of vintage earth imagery.
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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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My collection of vintage rainy days.
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Here are all the vintage images I’ve so far encountered that, for one esoteric reason or other, are categorized as “occult.”
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If you like fairies or are one, here's my current collection of vintage fairy imagery.
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It’s been said that hybrids evoke wonder and fear, magic and folklore. Evidence: strange hybrids.
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Japan and Japanese art of old: see my Japan gallery.
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Shiver in wonderment: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy
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