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A Herbal of the Artificial Age

To the Reader, in the Manner of a Preface A herbal is a sober book, whatever the woodcuts may suggest, and it is sober because the matter is serious. The plants it describes will, a good many of them, do a man real good …

Date 2026-05-24
Words 3456
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Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

The sixth post in this arc treated the Italian Baroque, and named the Italian Renaissance as the antecedent it had grown …

Date 2026-05-24
Words 3341
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Isfahan

Isfahan

The fifth post in this arc treated Kashan, and it opened the central Persian court register by setting the urban …

Date 2026-05-24
Words 3539
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Saltbox

Saltbox

The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the …

Date 2026-05-24
Words 3814
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A Grimoire of Prompts

A Grimoire of Prompts

A Preface, Addressed to the Practitioner There is a class of book, old and disreputable, that proposes to teach a man …

Date 2026-05-23
Words 3694
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English Regency

English Regency

The ninth post in this arc treated Thomas Sheraton, and closed by promising one of two continuations: the heavier …

Date 2026-05-23
Words 3629
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Oushak

Oushak

The ninth post in this arc treated the Hereke — a rug made not by a place but by an institution, a state manufactory …

Date 2026-05-23
Words 3377
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Dutch Colonial

Dutch Colonial

The Federal post, several entries back, closed by promising one of two styles for later treatment: the Pueblo Revival of …

Date 2026-05-23
Words 3850
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Thomas Sheraton

Thomas Sheraton

The eighth post in this arc treated George Hepplewhite, and closed by promising one of two continuations: a return to …

Date 2026-05-22
Words 3625
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  1. AI

    A Herbal of the Artificial Age

    To the Reader, in the Manner of a Preface A herbal is a sober book, whatever the woodcuts may suggest, and it is sober because the matter is serious. The plants …

    3456 words · 17 min
  2. ANTIQUES

    Italian Renaissance

    The sixth post in this arc treated the Italian Baroque, and named the Italian Renaissance as the antecedent it had grown out of — the sixteenth-century cassone …

    3341 words · 16 min
  3. ANTIQUES

    Isfahan

    The fifth post in this arc treated Kashan, and it opened the central Persian court register by setting the urban workshop against the village loom — the …

    3539 words · 17 min
  4. ARCHITECTURE

    Saltbox

    The Dutch Colonial post, which closed the previous entry, ended by promising that the series would at last leave the revivals and turn to the thing they had …

    3814 words · 18 min
  5. AI

    A Grimoire of Prompts

    A Preface, Addressed to the Practitioner There is a class of book, old and disreputable, that proposes to teach a man the management of spirits. The grimoire is …

    3694 words · 18 min
  6. ANTIQUES

    English Regency

    The ninth post in this arc treated Thomas Sheraton, and closed by promising one of two continuations: the heavier Regency succession that displaced Sheraton …

    3629 words · 18 min
  7. ANTIQUES

    Oushak

    The ninth post in this arc treated the Hereke — a rug made not by a place but by an institution, a state manufactory weaving silk to a master cartoon at a …

    3377 words · 16 min
  8. ARCHITECTURE

    Dutch Colonial

    The Federal post, several entries back, closed by promising one of two styles for later treatment: the Pueblo Revival of the Southwest, or the Dutch Colonial of …

    3850 words · 19 min
  9. AI

    The Feeding Grounds: A Natural History of the Intelligent Machine

    What follows is a shooting script, assembled from field notes taken over a single season in a habitat that has, in the brief span of its documented existence, …

    3665 words · 18 min
  10. ANTIQUES

    Thomas Sheraton

    The eighth post in this arc treated George Hepplewhite, and closed by promising one of two continuations: a return to the English neoclassical line in its …

    3625 words · 18 min
DateCategoryTitleWordsRead
2026-05-24aiA Herbal of the Artificial Age345617 min
2026-05-24antiquesItalian Renaissance334116 min
2026-05-24antiquesIsfahan353917 min
2026-05-24architectureSaltbox381418 min
2026-05-23aiA Grimoire of Prompts369418 min
2026-05-23antiquesEnglish Regency362918 min
2026-05-23antiquesOushak337716 min
2026-05-23architectureDutch Colonial385019 min
2026-05-22aiThe Feeding Grounds: A Natural History of the Intelligent Machine366518 min
2026-05-22antiquesThomas Sheraton362518 min