Autumn is definitely here. Not the lingering, warm Autumn of early September, but the damp, wet Autumn that points with trembling finger towards Hallowe’en and the first chill winds of Winter. For me, September has been one of reading tales by Algernon Blackwood that seem to anticipate this change of weather: of islands of willows on the Danube, of remote Canadian wilderness, of ghostly monasteries. I’ve also enjoyed reading Thistlebone by T. C. Eglington and Simon Davis. In the background of my September life has been The Advisory Circle, Pye Corner Audio, Boards of Canada and (more upbeat) Stereolab.
Month: September 2022
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September’s Notebook
Recently I’ve started rewatching Fringe, the 2008-2013 X-files-like science fiction tv series about science terrorism, a war between alternate dimensions and strange Watcher-like beings called Observers. I bought this tie-in book, September’s Notebook, for £5 from ebay. I’ve got similar books like this called “vaults” which contain inserts and removable documents. This one pretends to be an in-universe object where one of the Observers has collected information about the characters and the cases they investigate.