THERE IS an island out there beyond the last shimmering gasp of the foamed flecked sea.| apocryphaa.substack.com
and the origins of Satoshi Nakamato| apocryphaa.substack.com
One bookshop is all bookshops| apocryphaa.substack.com
I received this story from a university acquaintance named Josiah Doon.| apocryphaa.substack.com
Whenever I visit the house of my grandfather, who now lives in a single room of a nursing home, I drop my stuff in the entryway and go straight to the basement, waving a rolled-up newspaper like a wand to clear a path through the cobwebs.| Apocrypha
Lucian of Samosata, AT&T, and AI| apocryphaa.substack.com
In the beginning, early Man, still living among the trees, ate only fruit and leaves.| Apocrypha
There was barely a ripple upon the water, where the reflections of stars glinted like floating leaves.| Apocrypha
This text was commissioned by the newsletter-publishing company hereafter called “S*****K.”| Apocrypha
At the time of writing there are 63 of you very fine people who currently pay for Apocrypha. Some of you, I suspect, are holdovers from the Books That Made Us days — the Before Times, when this newsletter had not yet taken the wild and veering turn into the dark and unknown waters of obscure esoterica.| Apocrypha
Among the immense collection of the British Museum’s Department of the Middle East, I came across the following document (which appears to have been written by many hands).| Apocrypha
Editor’s Note: The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c.| Apocrypha
Ecks stretched out her five arms to stabilize herself as her ship emerged from hyperspace.| Apocrypha
A communiqué by Appraisal Bureau of Wonderful Monuments and Monumental Structures| Apocrypha
The French philosopher Henri Bergson put forward in his 1907 book Creative Evolution the theory that all living organisms evolved from one and the same vital impulse, but at some point in its advancing this impulse diverged in two separate directions – one favouring instinct, which we see most illustriously demonstrated in the life of insects with their hivemind organisation and their ability to efficiently carry out tasks which our all-too-human minds cannot fathom their grasp of; and the ...| Apocrypha
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Louis Borges| apocryphaa.substack.com