outside light
  • ① ② ③ digest
  • @ outside light
  • ⚗ theory
  • ✍ journal
  • ؎ a|poetry
  • ❡ other writing
  • ⏚ resources | links
Sign in Subscribe
“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

... which is strange because this morning I was thinking exactly the same thing. However the thought is bluntly disputed by Brittany Allen. In her squib on Rachel Cusk's Life of M, more than likely about Natalie Portman, Allen writes, "Yet those are people, in her pages."
Simon Taylor 05 Aug 2026
Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

...There are few images to be found. One has to dig for them like an archaeologist. One has to search through this ravaged landscape to find anything at all... It's often tied up with risk, of course, which I would never shun, but I see so few people
Simon Taylor 31 Jul 2026
"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false. –"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,
Simon Taylor 16 Jul 2026
อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

Ao translates as bay and Nang, princess. Railay comes from a Malay word meaning rice-producing. Exploring the environs, forgoing the fondue, sitting beach-side into the sunset: then electricity: 0:00 /0:24 1× 0:00 /0:43 1× snaps of ventilated cars and obligatory cats: the loudest longtail
Simon Taylor 14 Jul 2026
Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

1996 in Spanish 2015 in English George Henson's translation although, the following is Stuart Cooke's translation: ... a simple description, without additions, without delays, echoes or shadows, fatally reduces the power of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote—something vulgar, basically. Always, from the very
Simon Taylor 01 Jul 2026
เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

Am I using my website as a sort of intellectual Instagram? A friend wrote and told me this was what I seemed to be doing. He added that he disliked social media and would not be looking at what I posted in future. I regret the latter, not the former,
Simon Taylor 23 Jun 2026
กระบี่, Krabi

กระบี่, Krabi

Good morning! Walked down to the Krabi River ... along the boardwalk riverside, looking at the longtails, when accosted by a guy offering a river trip on his. Reflex was to respond no. We did but toed and froed with looks, like, and yes then perhaps but why not? He named
Simon Taylor 16 Jun 2026

Subscribe to outside light

to receive posts directly by email please sign up
  • Sign up
outside light © 2026. Powered by Ghost