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  1. occult
    Oct 1, 2026 · original
    adjective oc·​cult ə-ˈkəlt not revealed : secret … deep subterranean occult jealousy —J. C. Powys not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious … occult matters like nuclear physics, radiation effects and the designing of rockets …—Robert Bendiner hidden from view : concealed … occult underground passages also : not present in macroscopic amounts –Merriam-Webster
  2. the magical mystery tour (8)
    Sep 29, 2026 · original
    28.09.2026. Waterstones Kings Road, major station on anyone’s MMT. Thanks Robin! Photo & text filched from Robert Lyko-Greer’s Insta story.
  3. magical mystery tour (7)
    Sep 23, 2026 · original
    A selection of Booker judges and shortlisters, 22nd September 2026. Left to right: Rebecca Liu, Rebecca Perry, Luke Kennard, Raymond Antrobus, Marlon James and Patricia Lockwood. Who the vague-looking old bloke at the end is, with his gardening jacket and little tin of lager, we may never know. Perhaps he wandered in from the South Bank looking for some place to sleep away from the river’s airs. Anyway, something else caught our attention for a fraction of a second and when we turned back he had gone. It was a great party. Photo, Cath Phillips.
  4. https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/19304/
    Sep 23, 2026 · original
  5. in the new room
    Sep 17, 2026 · original
  6. https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/19280/
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  7. https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/19275/
    Sep 10, 2026 · original
    I lost interest in “possibility” science fiction long ago. I think because the “possibilities”, like the “futures” of Futurism, are all so anthropocentric. Also, as ideas, they’re so clunky. Look around. Musk on Mars will define the “possibility” of colonisation, “terraforming” etc, by defining the anthropocentric (indeed Muskocentric) uses of colonisation. We already have experience of that. We won’t, in the end, be going anywhere new: we’ll be going to a place we already made, the one we’ve had so many dreary arguments about; a version of here. Look around at the here we made, how do you like it? Even if we’re “changed” by some “possible” experience, we’ll still be us because we centralise ourselves–as a phenomenon, as the phenomenon–in the “story” and in the Out There. It was never so obvious that you’re limited by what you can imagine, by what stories you can (ie, want to) tell. That
  8. note, 2012
    Sep 10, 2026 · original
    Lawrence Durrell, Justine : “I would set my own book free to dream… What follows would be a drama freed from the burden of form.” [p66, Faber edn. My ellipsis.] Important here would be the strength of the form from which the book had been freed? The input offered by the form would persist like the remains of a vanished civilisation, suddenly offering structure and then denying it, as you moved across the book’s landscape? Originally published 27.01.2012
  9. https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/19268/
    Sep 7, 2026 · original
  10. a couple of reactions to TEoE at Insta
    Aug 31, 2026 · original
    From Tom J Atherton , who begins: “A terrifying book that’s left me deeply unsettled. If the act of reading a novel is a process of deciphering its signs and images in order to parse some sense of over-meaning or subtext, then The End of Everything is an anti-novel, composed of imagery and symbols and events that stand completely apart from any recognisable field of metaphor and emblematic representation. … It can read like a traditional English seaside novel, but populated with utterly bizarre people and philosophies. Everything about it feels wrong and frightening and cryptic, without precedent.” And from Stuart Evers , who ends: “Harrison’s burnished, elegant and elegiac prose is equal to his subtle world building. It is a marvellous novel, one that lingers, and haunts, like a unusual stain in a seaside hotel room.” Worth reading both these reviews at source. Caffeined up on Sainsbury

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