"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/

THE TRUTH AND THE LIE

An age-old fable told from the perspective of 2026

I’d like to tell you a tale, but I don’t know if telling it will make any difference. You see, this story has existed in human history for a long time.

Read the complete story here -

https://spawningfish.substack.com/p/the-truth-and-the-lie?r=473d8h

#fiction #shortstory #fable #truth #Lie #well

Un homme, ayant pris à la chasse une perdrix, allait la tuer.
Elle le supplia en ces termes: «Laisse-moi vivre; à ma
place je te ferai prendre beaucoup de perdrix. — Raison de
plus pour te tuer, repartit l’homme, puisque tu veux prendre
au piège tes camarades et tes amis.»
Cette fable montre que l’homme qui trame des machinations
contre ses amis…

— Émile Chambry
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/7d837864-61b5-41cf-abbe-3ec69b3f1bf1
#philosophy #fable #bookstodon #mastolivre #litterature

Extrait & vidéo de ℭℜ𝔄𝔑𝔈𝔖 by @sauvageoness
https://youtu.be/gbQ4qic115U

tiré du future nouvel album:
𝔄 𝔐𝔞𝔷𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 ℑ𝔫

Semaine prochaine: 1er single + ouverture précommandes!

#newsong #cranes #fable #esope #amazedeepin #punk #rock #indienoise #industrial #dreampop #punk #postpunk #shoegaze #alternative #music #video #clip #videoclip #album #vinyl

📽 by JJDelay
montage et réalisation: Ecklonis Pourpier
recorded by Sauvageoness at Bunker Paradize & by Jack Shirley, at The Atomic Garden + mix & master

Extrait & courte vidéo de ℭℜ𝔄𝔑𝔈𝔖
https://youtu.be/gbQ4qic115U

tiré du future nouvel album:
𝔄 𝔐𝔞𝔷𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 ℑ𝔫

Next week: 1er single + ouverture précommandes!

#newsong #cranes #fable #esope #amazedeepin #punk #rock #indienoise #industrial #dreampop #punk #postpunk #shoegaze #alternative #music #video #clip #videoclip #album #vinyl

📽 by JJDelay
montage et réalisation: Ecklonis Pourpier
recorded by Sauvageoness in Bunker Paradize Renens and by Jack Shirley, at The Atomic Garden in Oakland + mix & master

March is my birthday month! In celebration of the occasion, my books are on sale on Itch! You can get each book for 20% off or all three for $4.

If you like sci-fi, fantasy, or fables with LGBTQ and disabled representation, then these books might be for you!

#scifi #fantasy #fable #books #booksale #bookstodon #lgbtqia #disability

https://itch.io/s/182412/sci-fi-fantasy-birthday-bundle

And if the tale be true they tell about the Ragged Stone
I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone.

— Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/b4cf34b0-a930-44ed-9895-b053310c47cc
#fable #bookstodon #books #literature

"Nay, there thou liest, thou Sompnour," quoth the Frere.
"Peace," quoth our Host, "for Christe's mother dear;
Tell forth thy tale, and spare it not at all."
"So thrive I," quoth this Sompnour, "so I shall." --

— Geoffrey Chaucer
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/7d04d433-5777-44e8-a2b2-12f69b7b153f
#fable #bookstodon #books #literature

Silent, oh Moyle, be the roar of thy water,
Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose,
While, murmuring mournfully, Lir's lonely daughter
Tell's to the night-star her tale of woes.
When shall the swan, her death-note singing,
Sleep, with wings in darkness furl'd?
When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing,
Call my spirit from this stormy world?

— Thomas Moore
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/6d367fa7-8995-4484-a7bb-13860da79dd6
#gothic #fable #nature #bookstodon #books #literature