Quentin's Weeknotes 9/25/22-10/01/22

This Week:

• In MUST252, I used brass projectile points and a decorated axe-head to talk about the Fur Trade, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant.
• I finished reading M. John Harrison’s magical middle-age novel “The Course of the Heart”. It didn’t have the clarity or propulsive mythology of Viroconium or Light, but it was, as always, gorgeously written, and used magic as a vantage point for exploring the decay of dysfunctional relationships and the ways that we flee from aging and history.
• I read T. Kingfisher’s energized, terrifying horror novel “The Twisted Ones”. It builds off of the mythology of Arthur Machen’s ambiguous short story “The White People” and pivots its strange world into rural North Carolina. Plus, Bongo the dog is a delight!
• While recuperating from a reaction to the Bivalent vaccine, I watched “we’re all going to the World’s Fair”, a genre-defying movie that combines elements of horror, found-footage youtube videos, teenage coming-of-age stories, and drama. Drawing on  disposal creepypasta-like internet mythology, it uses these parts as a way of thinking about growing up, alienation, and storytelling.