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The Bespectacled Folklorist received a dispensation from the Dilmun Club, too, and has prepared a compendium of catalogued and cross-catalogued notes. You glimpse the demarcated pages.

Cryptopaleontological Notes. Research notes on the strange creatures of the Neath.
Sorrow-Spiders and Spider-Councils.
The Eater-of-Chains and the Inhabiter of Wolves.
The Thing in the Mirror and the 'Lords of London.'
The Wings of Thunder Bat and its Offspring.
Further Residents of the Labyrinth of Tigers.
The Vake.
The Rubbery Forms of Flute Street.
The Animates of Polythreme. (Including Clay Persons.)
Devils and Demons.
Creatures Capable of Discourse. (Cats, Rats, Ravens, Et Al.)


Prelapsarian Archaeological Notes. Research notes concerning cities before the fifth.
The First City. Speculated to be Nagar.
The Second City. Speculated to be Amarna.
The Third City. Speculated to be Hopelchén.
The Fourth City. Speculated to be Karakorum.
The Half-Stolen Flute Street.
The Bazaar, the Masters, and Their Practices.

Theosophistrical Notes. Research notes on matters of the spirit and the other side.
Imanuel Lundberg's Grand Theory of the Correspondence.
Other Theories of the Correspondence.
Madame Petrovsky's Secret Dogma and the Fifth Age of Civilisation.
Madame Petrovsky's Practical Pantheism.
The Works of Doctor Schlomo.
Parabola.
Speculative Travel. (Anarcho- or Otherwise)
London Dream Lore.
London Soul Lore.
Principles of Life and Death in the Neath.
Spirits and Spiritualism. (Beneath and Above.)
Magic and Magicians.


You also glimpse a glint of gold at his ear, that was not there before -- a zailor's charm against drowning. Superstitious.

Compare Notes with the Bespectacled Folklorist.

[all those researchers scurrying about the zee are bound to run into each other. use the comments to share content and chatter without spoiler tags.]

What's written here?

Date: 2011-12-02 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theodor-gylden.livejournal.com
A stone tablet and a few columns have the scratchy writing of the Fourth City on them.

Far to the East
This isn't a temple covered in prayers. This is a map. Well, a set of directions. You can't decipher all of it, and some parts depend on roof-light configurations, which have since changed. But there's somewhere East over the Unterzee, or at least there was. Somewhere that zailors of the Fourth City called 'our last bastion and salvation'.

Date: 2011-12-02 12:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theodor-gylden.livejournal.com
Some directional considerations.

To the West of London lies Hell. The Stolen River runs through it. The Brass Embassy is the Western Tower. Whatever lies in the East may well be Hell's opposite -- Heaven, salvation. It is rumoured the Widow's brandy comes thence, and therein is eternal life.

On Mutton Island, the landlord of the Cock and Magpie, a woman with an army of children, and the Custodial Chef go from house to house each dawn. They assure that no light emanates from either the Northern or Eastern windows of the island. Whether this is practical, ritual, neither, or both is a subject of some debate between myself and my partner.

I dreamt of a fleet sailing due East, but its course gradually turned North. I turned my gaze Northeast, away from the sun, and when I awoke the storms were already in my eyes.

They say only a fool would go North.

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