Pairko
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🇺🇸 Florida native. Mississippi denizen. #Esperanto bonulo! Retired #MedicalPhysicist. Opinions are #CreativeCommons & shared with many thoughtful people. RTs must be passed on like a chain-letter, lest misfortune befall you.
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An obscure travel story from a UK tabloid. Not likely intended for US readers. There are few stories I've seen in which the author uses language likely to jar present-day readers. It is not gratuitous. But this is one of them. Heads up. To say more would be a spoiler. #ShortStory #AlgernonBlackwood
The Reformation of St. Jules by Algernon Blackwood
A travel story.
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“In this age of enlightenment, the soothsayer and astrologer flourish. As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.”
—Farmer (1967)
Dictionaries should be printed on parchment, using Hewlett Packard ink—which is made from unicorn blood, thus the most expensive ink imaginable—so it would become impractical for society to redefine words quite so frequently.
A supernatural story by Algernon Blackwood. Accompanies "La Mauvaise Riche." Once upon a time, in a far-off land, the penalty for malpractice was arcane.
#ShortStory #AlgernonBlackwood #WeirdFiction #CreativeCommons #Horror #Witch #GhostStory #Halloween #CCO
The Lock of Grey Hair by Algernon Blackwood
A supernatural story.
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Children's story by Algernon Blackwood in which — pun — while London sleeps, young Rose tours the seedy underworld.
#ShortStory #childrens #AlgernonBlackwood #CreativeCommons #CCO
By Underground by Algernon Blackwood
A children's story.
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Complete honesty
is the privilege of:
the very young,
the very old,
the very rich,
the very poor,
& the raving mad.

And combinations thereof.

The rest of us,
to the extent
we feel we must,
filter.