【Love Conquest】

2025-06-26 13:01:54 417 views 665 comments

Your Aura Is Orange and Love ConquestSquiggly, and Other News

By Dan Piepenbring

On the Shelf

the intention to know

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, “The Intention to Know,” a synesthetic illustration from Thought-Forms (1901).

  • That wild pope of ours—what’s he up to this time? Why, he’s hiring a Japanese tech firm to digitize the whole of the Vatican Library’s archives, of course! It’s almost as if this pontiff wants to make the world a better place.
  • Victorian occultists believed in a kind of synesthesia, “the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras.” Fortunately for all of us, they made many terrific illustrations to support this theory, too.
  • A landfill in New Mexico may contain truckload upon truckload of the worst video game of all time: Atari’s 1982 E.T.tie-in.
  • After years of trying to sweep him under the rug, atheists are finally talking about Nietzsche again.
  • Turkey’s Twitter ban has spawned a new Web site, Mwitter, which is semantically pretty fascinating. (Look for Elif Batuman in the comments section.)

 

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