Hookland 5/11/19 8:12:31

@elizabe50286054 When you start looking at Saxon halls, threshold burials, the recurring figure of the sorceress at the door of death et al, you begin to think that even Lovecraft and many other strange story writers have been under-telling this side of things.

Hookland 5/11/19 8:16:33

@elizabe50286054 I love that take. Many of the best magicians I have known have either been genius mathematicians, writers or architects who could hold radically different models in their heads/hack the ontology infrastructure at a code level.

Hookland 5/11/19 8:32:10

A foundation deposit of so many goat skulls has surprised some of my colleagues. I am more perplexed by the arrangement of the postholes and the doors. – Dr. R. Lambert on the excavation of the Saxon site at Haverling.

Hookland 5/11/19 21:36:56

Of course we have English ways of the dead. Our routes, our rituals for grief. Our peculiar ways for trying to pre-empt the haunting we know must come. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1976 https://t.co/h1Sr0Gf1i2