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Bypassing Archangels by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Machen ventures onto dangerous ground with Dishevelled Children.
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Thoughts and Words by Joshua Alan Sturgill
A Real Roly-Poly Pudding: In the true jam roll or—to call it by its honest old name—roly-poly pudding, the jam is an essential part of the whole, like the ornament in Gothic architecture. It has its place between each encircling roll of suet crust; it is cooked with the crust; it bubbles out rejoicing from the folds of crust when the knife touches it. This is the roly-poly pudding that helped to make us Britons and gave us the might to beat Boney down.
Clotted Nonsense: If the German be such a fool as to think his language the criterion of all other languages, and, in a sense, the only language, he may well conceive German morality to be the only morality. And thus he may easily arrive at the conclusion that it is pious to bomb Margate, but infamous to bomb Mannheim.
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AT A MAN’S TABLE
Gastronomical Adventures with Arthur Machen
It may be of little surprise to seasoned Arthur Machen readers that the Welsh fantasist who wrote on “the joy of eating,” would have also contributed an excellent, if short-lived, culinary column to a weekly British newspaper. At a Man’s Table collects this material along with supplementary work to provide a survey of Machen’s gastronomical adventures between 1912 to 1938.
This limited hardcover edition is limited to 40 copies. SOLD OUT
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Notice the Lotus (A Lyric for Spring) by Joshua Alan Sturgill
We follow Machen from The Evening News to The Daily Express for Little Sights of London.
AT A MAN’S TABLE
Gastronomical Adventures with Arthur Machen
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It may be of little surprise to seasoned Arthur Machen readers that the Welsh fantasist who wrote on “the joy of eating,” would have also contributed an excellent, if short-lived, culinary column to a weekly British newspaper. At a Man’s Table collects this material along with supplementary work to provide a survey of Machen’s gastronomical adventures between 1912 to 1938.
This limited hardcover edition is limited to 40 copies. SOLD OUT
March 1st: The Feast of St. David of Wales
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
AT A MAN’S TABLE: Gastronomical Adventures with Arthur Machen
Darkly Bright Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of periodical work by Arthur Machen. This new volume includes the complete culinary column Machen wrote for The Sunday Express in the late 1920s and additional fugitive pieces.
The collection will be available for preorder on Monday, March 3rd, and is limited to 40 copies.
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Meditation After School by Joshua Alan Sturgill
A Nation in Exile: We pity, I think, not those who are most pitiable, but those who are most helpless. The Russian Church is now offering prayers not only for the soldiers of Russia but for the innocent beasts whose blood is being spilt during the war, they having done no harm. So one pities these poor children, who perhaps understand very little and suffer nothing much more than weariness and confusion; and yet one’s heart goes out more to the little boy of three or four, who clings to his mother’s skirt …
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Man Quietly Gathers by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Exiles: Some of them have seen towns and villages laid waste amid circumstances of incredible cruelty, others have fled before the black legions have come upon them. There are 20,000 French and Belgian refugees now in Folkestone, and many of the exiles have passed on to London. They come, and yet more come each day and all the day. Boat follows boat, from Antwerp, from Flushing, from Dieppe, from Ostend, from Boulogne
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Naturae Natura by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Light That Can Never Be Put Out:
For we be come of earth and sea,
Of heaven and hell and of faerie,
Of high and low and each degree,
Both king and clown in this meinie,
So shall we hear with mirth and glee
Missam pro Anglia.
February 9th is the Feast of St. Teilo of Llandaff.
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Many Changes of the World by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The War Song of the Welsh: ‘The sword of the Bards of the Isle of Britain is drawn against wrong and cruelty and oppression, against abomination and defilement, against treachery and abounding wickedness.’ The sword flashed in the light of the dying sun, and the assembly said that a strong sword was drawn against the oppressors.
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History by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The Ceaseless Bugle Call: It shall resound till it call up the spirits of the heroes to fight in the vanguard of our battle, till it summon King Arthur and all his chivalry forth from their magic sleep in Avalon; that they may strike one final shattering blow for the Isle of Britain against the heathen horde.
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