In which the fell beast contemplates the sunrise.
Finished reading: The Annotated Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 📚
Currently reading: The Annotated Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 📚
Finished reading: William Blake vs the World by John Higgs 📚
'Satan viewing the Ascent to Heaven' from The Paradise Lost of John Milton with illustrations by John Martin, London, 1846, pl. facing p.83. Mezzotint on steel, 19.6 cm x 15.3 cm. Photo: ©Royal Academy of Arts, London
Paul Ford: "The real reason Twitter lies in ruins is because it was an abomination before God. It was a Tower of Babel.” This would be a lot more convincing if Ford didn’t then go on to praise Mastodon, which is an earnest attempt to rebuild Babel, just by using stones from several different quarries.
Culling my RSS feeds this afternoon, I was both saddened and annoyed to see how many museums that once had wonderful Tumblrs have abandoned them — almost certainly in favor of Instagram, which is a truly terrible environment for viewing art.