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...It may not be for everyone: there are Tarot cards depicted here, and talk of the occult. I sometimes had to re-read whole chapters....
...philosophia (“On Occult Philosophy”), a forerunner to today’s author photo....
...Another is named after Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, the great novel about conspiracy theories and occult systems of knowledge....
...Chapters are themed after tarot cards, lending events a sense of occult mystique. There’s a lot to love about the decadent demi-monde that Woolf evokes and our heroine’s lethal, gun-toting progress....
...“Feels Like I Am Dreaming” unfolded to supernatural imagery of occult brides and masked figures. There are times when the O2 Arena can be a large and impersonal space....
...As it happens, a local craze is an occult game of dare involving a plaster hand that supposedly contains the severed remnant of a psychic....
...Activision Blizzard recently said that in the first few days after its release, the video game Diablo IV had grossed sales of $666mn. It described that appropriately occult figure as “auspicious”....
...of destruction....
...There is some speculation, notably by Fulvio Ferrari, founder of the Casa Mollino museum, that the architect — who became fascinated with the occult in his later years — had designed his own apartment for...
...I dispensed many, many vials of blood. My Hooke reveal — part “Bioportrait”, part action plan — ran to 92 pages, with excellent layperson’s explanations of the more occult medical language....
...Resembling occult brides from a Dario Argento horror film, they performed ritualistic movements such as ringed dances around the robot She....
...Meanwhile, her wealthy dilettante friend Theodore studies magic and the occult....
...I was delighted to find my only famous ancestor, the wizard Cunning Murrell, among vignettes of the occult ways that flourished in Essex after dying out elsewhere....
...“I was inspired by the darkness of it when I was a teenager,” says Parreno when we meet in Madrid. “They were a little bit occult, a little bit weird....
...The coincidences and connections rattled her: “There does seem to be something occult going on here, and I don’t think I believe in the occult,” she wrote to Werner....
...Af Klint was part of a small occult group that conducted seances and communed with spiritual beings, and The Paintings for the Temple was “assigned” by one of the artist’s spirit guides....
...My father was an expert on comparative religions, folklore and the occult, who once celebrated the solstice with druids at Stonehenge....
...When doctors talk of an “occult infection” they mean an infection that is hidden. In the Minnesota study, more people thought it had something to do with a curse....
...She swaps an elite college for a museum and, instead of Tartt’s student classicists, features a bevy of secretive art historians; for ancient Greek Bacchic rites, she substitutes the occult interests of...
...Set mostly during the dictatorship, Our Share of Night imagines an occult sect, “the Order”, that takes victims for torture and human sacrifice under the cover of the state-sponsored abductions....
...But their fears are dismissed by the local rector, Will Ransome (Tom Hiddleston), who has no time for the occult and who growls “There is no serpent” five times in the first hour for those snoozing in the...
...As Halloween approaches, it seems fitting that we are preparing a Working It podcast episode covering astrology and the occult at work....
...Nevertheless, recently Owens has been toying with the pentagram, the five-pointed star often seen as a symbol of the occult....
...Compared to those forebears, SoundCloud rappers presented themselves as chronically introverted, mumbling verses and dealing in macabre, occult imagery....
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