THE first time I saw the Ruined Tower, it took me by surprise, for it was in Summer, and the crown of oak-trees on its motte of earth were in full leaf; it was only very close by that I could see the fallen, ivy-covered building within. But I have Continue Reading
BOOK OF QUESTS
I EARTH WORKS Our four-fathers came from North and South and East and West And our mother, and her daughters, Seven Sisters, Came from everywhere, I think. And our one father, from the North, With hammer and tongs Arrived with his ships, and his silver, And they heard his roar Continue Reading
Leabhar Draíocht – The Grimoire Diagrammaton
These are the collected Diagrammaton of the Hollow Collective, from 2000-2012. There are others, of course, and in due course, as we excavate the archives of the Hidden Library, they will be added au fur et à mesure. Venus in Furs, Mars to Measure. DIAGRAMMATON : appeared as one of Continue Reading
POTTER’S FIELD ; OR, WE KNOW WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED : HARRY POTTER AND THE HOLLOW CROWN
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THE HIDDEN LIBRARY
Devlin’s Account of The Long Night Nov. 1st 1894 So it begins. The Game is underway, the seeds are sown, the dice are cast. And, despite some rotten looking bruises around the face and head, I’ll hazard that I’m winning already. Crowe can stuff it in his pipe. He told Continue Reading
LEAVES FROM THE LEABHAR DRAÍOCHT : SAINT SWITHIN’S DAY – HIGH SUMMER, 15 July 2012
We had come to the Lost Domain, leaving as the last of the night leaked from the sky under the last wedge of the Waning Moon. I carried with me a glyph of Will-Working, charged in an intense ceremony in which the Dark One-Eyed Wanderer stood before me, covered me Continue Reading
A PAGE FROM THE LEABHAR DRAÍOCHT – PILGRIMAGE TO CLOCH NA CAILLÍ BHÉARA – THE HAG-STONE OF BEARA
Morning 7 March 2019 There’s a great soft sweep of pink cloud in the Western sky ; the sky is someway clear otherwise, after the storms and the wild wind of the night – the Dark of the Moon. Yesterday I went to meet the Cailleach. In the morning after Continue Reading
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF
There is a sickness, and there is a gift. There is a power to heal, and there is a hurt that never heals, a wound that never knits closed; are they one and the same? Among many traditional shamanistic cultures, there is an idea of the “shaman sickness”, a preparatory Continue Reading
‘The Ever-undiscovered Country over the hill’ : The Temporality and the Geometry of Adventure
‘A proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art’; Robert Louis Stevenson adopts this provocative position in his 1884 essay, ‘A Humble Remonstrance’,[1] written as a rejoinder to Henry James’s ‘The Art of Fiction’,[2] which had appeared a few months earlier, also in Longman’s Continue Reading
STOP THE CAVALRY [MICK, DECEMBER 2009]
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A shaft of light across the bed in the dark before dawn, and she’d come back in, fully dressed, and nestled down beside him to say goodbye. He turned away, groaning, and her small body curled against his back. Kisses on the nape of his neck and his shoulder. Whispers Continue Reading