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“Chloromgonfus detectis, a dragonfly that can detect volatile pollutants.” A speculative insect by artist Vincent Fournier<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “…a modern taxonomist straddling a Wellsian time machine with the purpose of exploring the Cenozoic era…” Butterflies tied together Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s home, science, and writing, says Mary Ellen Hannibal<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 More ghosts:\u00a0Kira Cochrane<\/a> on the Victorian tradition of the Christmas ghost story, and\u00a0Michael Newton<\/a> on why Jack Clayton’s The Innocents<\/em> (1961) remains one of the very best ghost films. No argument there.<\/p>\n \u2022 Should you require further persuasion, Daniel Barrow<\/a> reviews I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990<\/em>, an album still receiving heavy rotation in these quarters.<\/p>\n Swords, daggers\u2014weapons with a blade\u2014retained a mysterious, talismanic significance for Borges, imbued with predetermined codes of conduct and honor. The short dagger had particular power, because it required the fighters to draw death close, in a final embrace. As a young man, in the 1920s, Borges prowled the obscure barrios of Buenos Aires, seeking the company of cuchilleros<\/em>, knife fighters, who represented to him a form of authentic criollo<\/em> nativism that he wished to know and absorb.<\/p>\n The Daggers of Jorge Luis Borges by Michael Greenberg<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 The Junky’s Christmas<\/em><\/a> (1993): a seasonal tale from William Burroughs turned into a short animated film by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 101 by Jan Jelinek<\/a>, and The Conjuror’s Hexmas<\/a> by Seraphic Manta.<\/p>\n \u2022 Meet the 92-year-old Egyptian [Halim El-Dabh<\/a>] who invented electronic music.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Mysterious Lawn Home<\/a> of Frohnleiten, Austria.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Peacock Room<\/a> at Sammezzano Castle in Italy.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Quay Brothers’ Universum<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Alan Bennett<\/a>‘s diary for 2013.<\/p>\n \u2022 Butterfly<\/a><\/em> (1968) by Can | Butterfly<\/a><\/em> (1974) by Herbie Hancock | Butterfly<\/a><\/em> (1998) by Talvin Singh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Chloromgonfus detectis, a dragonfly that can detect volatile pollutants.” A speculative insect by artist Vincent Fournier. \u2022 “…a modern taxonomist straddling a Wellsian time machine with the purpose of exploring the Cenozoic era…” Butterflies tied together Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s home, science, and writing, says Mary Ellen Hannibal. \u2022 More ghosts:\u00a0Kira Cochrane on the Victorian tradition of … Continue reading “Weekend links 192”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,8,2,42,27,28,851,29,7,22,3,20,13,41],"tags":[1012,399,2271,5563,5569,3252,5518,5567,1483,5562,5561,5566,5564,4207,5565,5568,5570,5560,807,1190],"class_list":["post-14696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-burroughs","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-sculpture","tag-alan-bennett","tag-brothers-quay","tag-can-group","tag-daniel-barrow","tag-halim-el-dabh","tag-herbie-hancock","tag-jack-clayton","tag-jan-jelinek","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-kira-cochrane","tag-mary-ellen-hannibal","tag-melodie-mcdaniel","tag-michael-greenberg","tag-michael-newton","tag-nick-donkin","tag-seraphic-manta","tag-talvin-singh","tag-vincent-fournier","tag-vladimir-nabokov","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3P2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}