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Nightmare (c. 1940) by Rockwell Kent. Happy Halloween. May all your horrors be cosmic ones. • “At that time, I was into a lot of esoteric philosophical stuff, and he was very hungry to learn about that. I gave him a list of obscure books, which he sent his girlfriend out to buy from Atlantis Bookshop in Museum Street.” Bill Nelson talking about working with David Sylvian in the 1980s. This minor detail makes the Kabbalistic/alchemical appearance of Russell Mills cover art for Gone To Earth seem less of a coincidence. • Coming soon from Strange Attractor: Light From The North: Aleksandra Ionowa – Mediumistic and Visionary Artist, edited by Nina Kokkinen & Vivienne Roberts. • At Little White Lies: Ryan Finnigan on the macabre convergence of FW Murnau’s art and life. One reason to defend the dilettante, then, is for lexicological justice. The term has been unfairly burdened with an overly negative connotation. It wasn’t always this way. From the Baroque-era Italian dilettante, the term…