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Die Wunderkammer, Or Notes from an Austrian Journal

By Darran Anderson.

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The woods have been strangely silent since the temperature dropped. A week of electrical storms and sheer walls of rain advancing in from the sea [a note of recognition in rereading – Toni Kurz, die Mordwand, “Ich kann nicht mehr”] and then stillness, a curious unnatural stillness and the air a second from freezing before our eyes. A moth, made of dust and feathers, bounced around every angle in the room when I turned on the cabin light and scanned the rows of books for one to bring on the journey, besides a battered copy of Trakl that had accompanied me to the tropics. A black hardback with a funeral procession caught my eye. The Last Days of Mankind: Karl Kraus and His Vienna by Frank Field (1967). It looked so irredeemably grim I knew I would be compelled to take it, whether I wanted to or not.

Rune Poem

By S.J. Fowler.

Second She Wolf [excerpt]

By Lies Van Gasse, translated by Michael Brijs.

Civilisation’s Golden Dawn: A Slide Show

By Christodoulos Makris.

Boy sitting on a ledge, stone mountains hanging mid-air behind him, looking down.

Food and hospitality are important to culture.

Thessaloniki: a goalkeeper lunge, an open window, broken glass, a deep cut above the left eye, to hospital for stitches.

All packed up.

Conditions

By Mira Mattar.

The group watching the spinning top is similarly lit. Their focus is strict. The atmosphere is taut. The top spins and the bird flaps. Breath is held.

Factors that might affect the top’s momentum include: breath, someone stumbling and knocking the table, a telephone ringing, the pizza finally arriving.