"O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'No Worst, There Is None' (1918)
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- 🍄 Meet some new libraries: the Haustorium and the Grove of Green Immortals. Both are extremely dangerous, but at least the Haustorium admits it.
- 👨💻 Alexis is knee-deep in code which is difficult to share. Have a picture of a cat instead.
- 💌 A letter from a Curia member known only as 'F'. "When they make those curations and determinations in the encaustum terminale, the Hours take note, and they value the Librarian’s opinion… if the Librarian is of sufficient significance." Read it here.
- Catch up with development in our last sprint updates, Ebla and Folio.
- 🤫 Wishlist BoH and follow the roadmap!
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NOOK OF SPOOK: THE SOCIETY OF SIMON
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The third and final part in Alexis's vintage series of TRPG cabals. It features the Society of Simon, a clutch of Christian magicians hiding in plain sight as an obscure department of the Catholic Church. They were founded four hundred years ago by Pope Honorius III (the only pope to have written his own grimoire) and count the Archangels Michael and Uriel as particular friends.
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We ♥ Dorothy L. Sayers and her 1930s Peter Wimsey detective books. The twelfth in the series, Gaudy Night, is a law unto itself. Centring on middle aged scholars at an all-women Oxford college and an unusual non-murderous crime, Peter doesn't turn up 'til half way through the book.
Literary people don't read it because it's a detective novel, and detective fans don't read it because it's a bit literary. But there's a hell of lot going on: love, identity, feminism, gender politics... and a very funny bit with some meringues.
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