"There is no community in England; there is aggregation, but aggregation under circumstances which make it rather a dissociating than a uniting principle. ...It is community of purpose that constitutes society. Without that, men may be drawn into continguity, but they still continue virtually isolated. ...in cities that condition is aggravated. A density of population implies a severer struggle for existence, and a consequent repulsion of elements brought into too close contact." --Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil (1845)


The Archdruid Report. Last Wednesday's goes from Frank Lloyd Wright's roofs leaking to the interesting neologism "dissensus".


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vapor trails
spreading in the far cerulean
flying octopi
on an ammonia world


Dieselpunk. (via Metafilter) --I guess the recent Iron Man movie signals Hollywood's embrace of this aesthetic.


Harry Potter et Philosophi Lapis.