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I hate the ugly, hate the old, I hate the lame and weak, But more than that I hate the dead That lie so still in their earthen bed And never dare to rise.
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Announcing: Bluff Your Way In Occultism (opens the original)
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In the deep 1980s, back when you still had to at least pretend to know things, there existed a small and honourable cottage industry (housed chiefly in the back pages of Vanity Fair and its many imitators) devoted to the manufacture of cheat sheets for the busy and upwardly mobile. Five or six columns of dense text, spread over a few glossy pages, at the end of which the reader would have a vague idea of how long ago they could get away with claiming to have first heard of Diane Arbus; exactly w
Why Substack’s AI Detector Isn’t Just a Feature — It’s a Reckoning (opens the original)
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“In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, trust is the currency that matters most. And let’s be honest: that currency has been debased.Substack’s decision to let readers scan posts for AI-generated text isn’t merely a technical update — it’s a statement of values. It’s a line in the sand. It’s, dare I say, a love letter to the written word itself.Thanks for reading Bovril-Gesellschaft! Subscribe for free to r
He Do the Police in Different Voices (opens the original)
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“Now the Devil is dead and everyone can do as he wants” - traditional last lines of a Punch and Judy showIn early 1974, Russell Hoban, an American hitherto best known as a children’s author, wandered into Canterbury Cathedral, looked at a fifteenth-century wall painting of the legend of St Eustace - the Roman general who, out hunting, saw the crucified Christ suspended between the antlers of a stag and was converted on the spot, later to be roasted alive with his family inside a brazen bull - an
Witchcraft for Spoonies (opens the original)
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I have always harboured a soft spot - vestigial, unkillable and very faintly embarrassing - for the secondary witchcraft publishing industry that sprang up in the long tail of The Craft, a thoroughly entertaining mid-Nineties film which taught a generation of chubby suburban Goths the ancient and immutable principles of the Acausal Realm. Something along those lines, anyway. It may be a generational artefact, but I can report that every woman with whom I have conducted a long-term relationship h
4. The Early Gnostics (opens the original)
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If Platonism is unquestionably the foundation of the Western Esoteric Tradition, Gnosticism is its shadow, a belief system that is constructed from an interrogation of the same questions confronted by Platonism but that arrives at infinitely darker answers, draws more radical conclusions, and steadfastly declines to be reassured by the Cosmos’s mathematical elegance and remarkable if fleeting beauty. The two emerge from the same intellectual world and address the same problem, which is the centr
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