"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 30: The Shadow Bride

The Shadow Bride is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien included in the little-known poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
We take a look at it today on my Patreon, alongside some possible inspiration.
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Walkscapes

This is another book that was foundational in my intellectual development and it’s actually at the crossroads between architecture, level design and user experience. Francesco Careri, its author, trained as an architect in Rome and finished in Naples with a doctoral thesis titled “Il percorso,”

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August 30, 2026 6:00 am
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The Culture of Cities

Lewis Mumford never finished a degree, which is one of the main reasons I am attracted to his work: after chronic illness interrupted his studies at the City College of New York, what became one of the twentieth century’s most complete bodies of critical thinking

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A Pattern Language

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