eugh, this list needs serious organising, sorry

• make a list of things/topics/genres I'd like to write about
• Zuihitsu
  • ✔ The Pillow Book
  • Hōjōki
  • Tsurezuregusa
  • portraits of courtesans
• people:
  • Brunhild & Fredegund
  • Netta Fornario
  • Sybil Leek
  • Ida Lewis
  • Tycho Brahe
• poetry
  • ✔ clerihews
  • limericks
  • etc
• IS THERE A WORD FOR a feeling of anticipation that something very important is going to happen soon, but you don't know what it is?
• ✔ Cloudland
• mudita = taking delight in others' wellbeing or happiness (kinda like the opposite of schadenfreude)
• ✔ aegyo = winsome, cute, sweetly attractive.
• words:
  • Luftmensch = a dreamer.
  • Werifesteria = to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery. (Old English)
  • énouement = the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
  • tsundoku = buying books and not reading them; having a large collection of unread books.
  • Lustschloss = a pleasure palace, e.g. the Petit Trianon. I want to think of my craft room like this!
  • longueur = a long and boring passage in a literary work, drama, musical composition, or the like
  • erogurononsensu = "erotic, grotesque and nonsensical" a criticism of modern Japanese culture in the early to mid 20th century.
  • numen inest = "There is a spirit here."
  • ganbatte = Japanese meaning "good luck", "do your best".
• 25-FEB-16: Last night I had a dream, I can't remember any of it except there was a character called "Pen Penetha" (pron. pen-EE-tha). She had long blonde wavy hair and seemed very gentle and wise.
• "stone cold mess"
• Horror Vacui
• list of Culture Heroes
• from The Greatest Show on Earth:
  • the 12 tribes of bacteria
  • invagination
  • viruses
  • marine iguanas
  • biological 'arms' race
• Tycho Brahe and Uraniborg (Tycho Brahe's house/lab/observatory)
  • Tycho Brahe days (bad luck days)
• Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
• Taíno people
  • Taíno Pictographs google search
• glowing termite mounds
• Gothic blue books
• Unattended deaths // Kodokushi (lonely death)
• folk art
• Romanticism
• Expressionism art, poetry, etc
• legendarium
• telharmonium - the world's first synthesiser and the world's first music streaming service (1890s) invented by Thaddeus Cahill
• traditional Japanese colours
• The Sublime (philosophy)
• Japanese colour names
• wanderlust and/or flâneury
• Lynx, German wild cat
• Rune Poems
• Kami / Yokai / Kodama
• thought experiments:
  • swampman
• les argotiers : >> not the band of thieves per se, but the concept of a group with a secret language.
• bezoars / Rat King
• strange Japanese tales blog: kodama
• parasitic twins
• list of undeciphered writing systems
• Bestiary
• Yggdrasil
• moss/wood people ; wild men
• tomte / nisse
• Voynich manuscript

Cryptids of the World

• The tree that owns itself
• 14 untranslateable words with art and poems accompanying
• Ty's site on fairy tales
• 'a mess of iguanas'
  • photos of iguanas
• Ötzi, the Lovers of Valdaro, Tollund man, bog people, mummies, natural mummies
• I listened to this music and I had a sudden realisation/vision that I am a musical instrument. I was cherished, but worn and close to breaking. My owner knows it but can't face up to it. I say to him, "you need to let me go."

diseases & disorders

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptive_daydreaming
• serial killers //// crimes
  • "Asghar the Murderer"
  • Cianciulli
  • Gonzalez Sisters
  • "El Sádico"
  • Spider Killer
  • The Homeless Killer
  • House of Laments

murders & disappearances

• Disappearance of Zebb Quinn
• Bobby Dunbar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

• pain perdu (lost bread)
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Maxim
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cravan
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Spangler

Quotes

• At one point, when white-faced calves broke loose around County Avenue and slept on lawns, frightened residents called to report "white-faced things in the dark".
• In October 1852, Allariz doctors presented the court with a report on Romasanta. Based heavily on Phrenology, the report accused Romasanta of inventing his affliction. While noting that Lycanthropy can be determined from a "visceral examination" and craneoscopia, the doctors found no causes or motives for his behaviour. "His inclination to vice is voluntary and not forced. The subject is not insane, dim-witted or monomaniacal, nor were these {conditions} achieved while incarcerated. On the contrary, he {Romasanta} instead turns out to be a pervert, an accomplished criminal capable of anything, cool and collected and without goodness but {acts} with free will, freedom and knowledge."
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_of_Kong
• Lefkandi pot medusa
• Pixelation pixies
• High altitude shrines - lack of oxygen causes a dreamlike state - mountaintops seen as spiritual places
• The habit of living among objects from the past
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludibrium

events, etc

• Year without a Summer
• flying snails