“To be honest, I don’t really pay attention to what supervillains say very much anymore. It’s always misunderstood genius this, you’ll regret the day that. Supervillains are, as a rule, drama queens. It gets old.”
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“Below me, the world curves away. Earth is almost heartbreakingly beautiful from up here. It’s home. It’s everything. I wish everyone had a chance to see it like this.”
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Justine
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/07/justine/
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Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Justine, or: The Misfortunes of Virtue [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (Naxos), Publisher, Local Library] by Marquis de Sade, trans John Phillips, part of the Oxford World’s Classics series Gilles Deleuze in Coldness and Cruelty insists that sadism (as inaugurated by de Sade) is at root the carnal application of critical inquiry. De Sade’s first […]
La Maison de Rendez-vous
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/07/26/la-maison-de-rendez-vous/
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews La Maison de Rendez-vous [Amazon (1965), Abebooks (1965), Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated Walter Wells, Jac Lenders, and Richard Howard This avant-gardist “new novel” from 1965 hovers somewhere between a prose poem and an extended film treatment for an impressionistic thriller. The narrative continuity is distorted in […]
J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/07/05/j-r-r-tolkien-robert-e-howard-and-the-birth-of-modern-fantasy/
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Modern Fantasy [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Deke Parsons, eds Donald E Palumbo, C W Sullivan III, part of the Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series To judge by his book’s title, Deke Parsons has certainly picked an interesting […]
Funeral in Berlin
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Funeral in Berlin [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Len Deighton, book 3 of the Harry Palmer series. Where Horse Under Water (the immediately prior “Secret File” by Deighton) had a crossword conceit, Funeral in Berlin is instead ornamented with chess tactics. I read it as a chaser to […]
John Griogair Bell