The Visitor's Book
I have known Hollis Berridge since we were schoolboys, and I will say at the outset that there has never in all that …
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2026-05-26
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LAST · 2026-05-26
WRITING
— Long-Form Dispatches
Essays and long-form writing that doesn’t fit neatly under code or craft — reflections, arguments, reports from further up the stack.
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The Editor's Pen
I should perhaps begin by saying that Henry Avening was, when I first knew him, an honest writer — by which I mean only …
Date
2026-05-17
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4076
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The Forecast
Audio reading — narrated by Julian Download the audio reading I have known Edmund Carraway the better part of thirty …
Date
2026-05-10
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3594
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17 min
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The Listening Mirror
I have set down what follows because Hollis Vane asked me to, and because I do not entirely trust myself to remember it …
Date
2026-04-26
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4163
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The Map That Came True
I have set down what follows exactly as Mr. Aldous Renn told it to me, on three evenings in the autumn of his …
Date
2026-04-19
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3860
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19 min
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The Signal and the Silence
I set down this account not because I expect to be believed, but because the alternative — to carry it alone — has …
Date
2026-04-12
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6111
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29 min
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The Answering Engine
I had known Aldous Verrall, in the loose and intermittent way one knows a man who was once one’s tutor, for the …
Date
2026-03-29
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3925
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19 min
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Vermillion
Red of Titian, red of blood and throne mercury sulfide crushed from cinnabar stone prisoners in Almadén, digging their …
Date
2026-03-28
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269
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2 min
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The Last Hand-Knotter
I had gone up into the hills to write the obituary of a craft, and I will confess at the outset that I went in the …
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2026-03-08
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3878
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19 min
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Back to Work
Abyss open, fallen angel cast away chained, pixelated daydreams display sulfric inferno, platonic heat burning fresh …
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2026-02-23
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55
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1 min
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death
light blue, pink colours sun waves goodbye on a life lived, deep truths mixed with lie rope hanging, well knotted the …
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2026-01-09
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121
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1 min
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Ackchyually
Ackchyually… that is not a Vizagapatam piece, note the deeply carved floral ebony patterns that give it away as a …
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2026-01-05
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2026 Goals
A post about delicable delicous desires to be done in 2026.
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2026-01-01
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659
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4 min
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2025
Photos from 2025, displayed in chronological order.
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2025-12-31
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7
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Eternal Resistance
fire and frost, irritate the skin pain and sorrow our lifelong friend breath short, exhale watch the mist fog over the …
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2025-12-27
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130
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Squeaky Fan
forlorn, adrift am i acursed blood boiling heart ready to burst in the halll the fan doth squeak downcast my mind, moood …
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2025-11-28
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102
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1 min
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Why I will never use AI for art
I’ve been listening to a reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy recently and in it I think that Dante mets a poet …
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2025-11-28
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330
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2 min
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A place that could have been, but never was
a place that could have been but never was is it dark, is it light, silence or a buzz in this place, hope does permate …
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2025-11-27
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109
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1 min
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