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In homage to the semi-mythical and fictional misadventures of Faust and Wolfstein, this issue chronicles the antinomian lives of history’s most artful dodgers. A kind of real-life rogues’ gallery, it showcases the dastardly deeds of those who—perhaps impelled by Laverna’s hidden promptings—wasted away in their fortune-hunting exploits.

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Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm - Mountain in the Alps

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The Dragon Collector by Michael Parkes

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Sir William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969) - Calypso and Odysseus

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821 - 1900) - Warriors

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“As independent distributors of pamphlets and broadsides, these women played a significant part in the "literary buccaneering" and news wars of early modern Britain.“

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In 1870, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton hosted a quirky American man of letters named Charles Godfrey Leland at his manor house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire. The two thinkers were drawn to each other. They had a natural rapport, like long-lost brothers. Most importantly, they shared an ardent love for the occult. Bulwer-Lytton, the laconic parapsychological investigator and author of Zanoni, was so taken with Leland that he offered to loan him his dream divination device: the Stanhope crystal.

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"The thoughts of human hearts outvie the movements of a million suns, the rush of systems infinite through space." 

- R.A. Proctor

Art by Alexandre Séon.

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This early "Teflon Don" was an ex-priest, bandit king, and reputed sorcerer from Southern Italy.

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The lore of the mermaid brought to the African mainland by European voyagers had a tremendous effect on Central and West African religious cultures. Interestingly, these extensive traditions still thrive today. 

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any  “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. His statement may ring true in the work of Spanish artist Moon Ribas. In a way, Moon’s art is ‘techno-magical’. She creatively utilises cutting-edge gadgetry to explore the latent possibilities of the human senses.

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Excerpt from “A Dreamer of Dreams” by Madison Cawein (1911).