weather: ☀️ summer is nigh critters: assorted sulfurs, monarchs, painted ladies, very large swallowtail i love academic libraries that don't clean out their old stock. i think if this one did, most of the shelves would be empty, and remain empty for years as they scraped for funding to replenish them. anyway, today i found a pre-WWII book about flower folklore which still had several uncut pages. i've never encountered this in a library book, even in very old ones. i kinda felt bad that no one had read it thoroughly enough to bother cutting all the pages. what i could access was charming and even refreshing. what's old is new again, i guess. getting to the books on plants and gardens requires passage through the history and philosophy sections. nietzsche, of course. and spengler and paglia and rand. and every other infohazard for cult-joiner personalities who "escape" the right-left dichotomy by becoming spiritual school shooters. the last decadent days of rome. the last decadent days…
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