• the scarlet ibis / james hurst
• before the end of summer / grant moss jr
• the hunger artist / kafka
• metamorphosis / kafka
• before the law / kafka
• the black cat / edgar allen poe
• watch and wake / m. t. anderson
• the yellow wallpaper / charlotte perkins gilman
• secret life of walter mitty / james thurber
• harrison bergeron / kurt vonnegut
• lamb to the slaughter / roald dahl
• impulse / conrad aiken
• Story of an Hour / Kate Chopin
• harlequin valentine / neil gaiman
• bitter grounds / neil gaiman
• i have no mouth and i must scream / harlan ellison

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The dream is to take a trip around the world and experience different tea drinking cultures. Tea has spread about the world first on the silk route and other trade and also through colonialism. Some of the dream stops would be:

• various places in China (I haven't done much research but I'm sure there are different customs in different places)
• Japan
• Korea
• Russia
  • Tea is brewed strong in a samovar and then diluted in the cup. May be sweetened with jam.
  • Chifir' is a type of extremely strong tea brewed in Russian prisons where smoking and drinking are prohibited. 5-8 tablespoons of tea per cup, caffeine breaks down and adenine & guanine are released

• plantasia / mort garson
• ten ragas to a disco beat / charanjit singh
• dreams / gabor szabo

ones that i've read and that i know are along the lines of the secret history

• the secret history / donna tartt
• the virgin suicides / jeffrey eugenides
• rebecca / daphne du maurier
• the girls / emma cline

ones that i haven't read but suspect might be along the lines of the secret history

• the postman always rings twice / james m cain
• psycho / robert bloch
• the vegetarian / han kang
• dolly / anita brookner
• the magic toyshop / angela carter
• one of the boys / daniel magariel
• the tenant of wildfell hall / anne bronte
• state of grace / joy williams
• daphne du maurier

to read

• hunchback of notre dame / victor hugo
• the monk / matthew lewis
• the great god pan / arthur machen
• something faust/us!
• the castle of otranto
• the turn of the screw / henry james
• phantom of the opera
• lovecraft, du maurier, jackson,
• umberto eco only his books are so fucking long
• the fifth child / doris lessing
• the mysteries of udolpho / ann radcliffe

read

• we have always lived in the castle / shirley jackson
• carmilla / j sheridan le fanu or whatever
• dracula / bram stoker
• dr jekyll and mr hyde /

science writing, for general audience or scientists

• winter world / bernd heinrich
• where have all the birds gone? john terborgh
• deciduous forests of eastern north america / lucy braun
• the bird / colin tudge
• collin tudge, bernd heinrich

human ecology & ethnobotany from the academic perspective

• changes in the land / william cronon

agroecology and activism

• everyday acts of resurgence / jeff corntassel
• the good food revolution / will allen
• all these books on agriculture and gmos
• bringing nature home / doug tallamy
• vandana shiva

• the djinn in the nightingale's eye / a s byatt
• the ocean at the end of the lane / neil gaiman
• gingerbread / helen oyeyemi
• the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender / lesley walton
• wild sheep cahse / haruki murakami
• alice hoffman

• the book of boy / catherine gilbert murdock
• the book about the very serious boy who worked for francis bacon
• hild / nicola griffith

Orgel

• orgel / shinee
• adios / benjamin clementine
• to a sea horse / moondog
• when i'm small / phantogram
• i want you / elvis costello
• breezeblocks / alt j
• sugarbread / soap&skin
• glasses / iu
• familiar taste of poison / halestorm
• that other girl / sevdaliza
• small bill$ / regina spektor
• paris is burning / st vincent
• scary fairy tale / iu
• ticker tape / gorillaz
• busted and blue / gorillaz
• wicked moon / angel haze
• elevator / jonghyun
• lament / evita
• switchblade / lp
• fall creek boys choir / james blake

• Guess What / Il Serpente
• Stelvio Cipriani / Emily's Studio - Titoli
• Piero Umiliani / Synthi Theme
• Krzysztof Komeda / Rosemary's Baby (accessed through Emporio Ensemble)

• Ólöf Arnalds / Klara
• Rocky Votolato / Red River
• Fol Chen / Cable TV
• Lonely, Dear / Airport Surroundings
• Oblio / A Story of Nashville
• Beirut / My Night with the Prostitute from Marseilles
• Dr. Dog / Stranger
• Tyler James / All I Got
• Moonlight Bride / Young Guns
• Nick Jaina / Sleep Child
• Local Natives / Sun Hands
• Rogue Wave / Good Morning
• Devotchka / Transliterator
• The Album Leaf / There is a Wind
• Retribution Gospel Choir / Hide It Away
• The Good Players / David's Lamentation
• Slow Runners / Long Division
• April Smith and the Great Picture Show / Colors
• Yeasayer / Ambling Alp