Matthew Spencer
@unpaginated.bsky.social
Writer, translator, general semantic drudge. https://paradisealmanc.substack.com/
From the EPA Documerica series
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
From the EPA Documerica series
Another view of the Kleist cover:
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Another view of the Kleist cover:
Layouts in progress for a new pamphlet of Kleist translations. I'm having a lot of fun with colored type, and it felt appropriate to have fancy OpenType script for "On the Marionette Theater":
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Layouts in progress for a new pamphlet of Kleist translations. I'm having a lot of fun with colored type, and it felt appropriate to have fancy OpenType script for "On the Marionette Theater":
Late hibiscus and plastic litter in the canal:
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Late hibiscus and plastic litter in the canal:
On this day in 1810, Heinrich von Kleist published the first issue of the Berliner Abendblätter, the first daily newspaper in the city. Though it only lasted until March the following year, many of Kleist's best known writings appeared in its pages:
October 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On this day in 1810, Heinrich von Kleist published the first issue of the Berliner Abendblätter, the first daily newspaper in the city. Though it only lasted until March the following year, many of Kleist's best known writings appeared in its pages:
Proofs for The Parson in Jubilee have been approved, and the world will have another book by Jean Paul in English, my translation, in a few months:
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Proofs for The Parson in Jubilee have been approved, and the world will have another book by Jean Paul in English, my translation, in a few months:
He had seen strange stones burning,
Long ago, in the fires of thought...
Long ago, in the fires of thought...
August 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He had seen strange stones burning,
Long ago, in the fires of thought...
Long ago, in the fires of thought...
New acquisitions in Germanistik:
August 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New acquisitions in Germanistik:
Reprint in progress, a massive historical gothic adventure novel by Charles Maturin, set during the Albigensian Crusade, complete with werewolves (!) and some great epigraphs. "A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain."
July 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reprint in progress, a massive historical gothic adventure novel by Charles Maturin, set during the Albigensian Crusade, complete with werewolves (!) and some great epigraphs. "A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain."
Figures from the original "Uncanny Valley" paper by Masahiro Mori:
May 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Figures from the original "Uncanny Valley" paper by Masahiro Mori:
Sitting down and listening:
April 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sitting down and listening:
Kleist and Walser, flaneurs of the shadows. From "Winter Roses" by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Ann Goldstein.
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Kleist and Walser, flaneurs of the shadows. From "Winter Roses" by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Ann Goldstein.
Got this big guy in the mail the other day:
March 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Got this big guy in the mail the other day:
It was relaxing to complete this airport carpet patterned captcha.
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It was relaxing to complete this airport carpet patterned captcha.
"A great friend to the reality of things..." From Late Summer by Adalbert Stifter.
January 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"A great friend to the reality of things..." From Late Summer by Adalbert Stifter.
"He felt no weariness, though sometimes he found it disagreeable that he could not walk on his head."
Happy Lenz Day to all who celebrate:
Happy Lenz Day to all who celebrate:
January 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"He felt no weariness, though sometimes he found it disagreeable that he could not walk on his head."
Happy Lenz Day to all who celebrate:
Happy Lenz Day to all who celebrate:
UFO watchtower, San Luis Valley, Colorado. Photo by my sister.
January 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
UFO watchtower, San Luis Valley, Colorado. Photo by my sister.
This album, well, forever:
December 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This album, well, forever:
You could write a whole other book about how Stifter uses the word “thing” in this book:
December 14, 2024 at 4:38 PM
You could write a whole other book about how Stifter uses the word “thing” in this book: