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July 22, 2019
Smoke Sauna: The Original Sauna
Smoke saunas are one of the most seasoned sauna structures and the traditions and use that encompass them are found in numerous nations around the globe. Some are dated as far back as the thirteenth century and become very productive by the seventeenth century.
The most established saunas were cavern saunas and were incorporated halfway or all together with the ground and had roofs generally of soil.
Verifiably, most smoke saunas have been arranged in Estonia and the zone around that nation. These saunas contained little one-stayed, cross timber structures which were based on foundations. They had an earth floor and were warmed with a cobblestone stove utilizing no bond.
By the nineteenth century, changes had been made – saunas were being worked in two sections with isolated vestibules and a perspiration room, and board flooring. The roof was likewise changed. They were currently shrouded in shavings rather than reeds and a gap in the rooftop was made to take into account smoke to getaway.
The plan of the stoves changed and was worked with mud and consumed blocks. Building the stoves with shut tops gave the open door for the smoke to be coordinated to the fireplace and in this manner through the rooftop, presently the saunas progressed toward becoming without smoke.
At that point, the structure of kinds of saunas with smokestacks started to spread and in certain zones, it turned into the most famous plan. After a short time saunas with a fireplace surpassed the quantity of those without one.
Some more seasoned clients of the smoke sauna felt the ones with smokestacks were not in the same class as those without. They brought up contrasts like the floor being cooler, the sauna does not get as warm and when making steam the room winds up sodden. In certain territories, they believe the smoke sauna to be the “right” sauna.
October 7, 2017
September 9, 2017
matlaporte:
“She blinded herself, in short, by pretending for a while that human beings are not...
“She blinded herself, in short, by pretending for a while that human beings are not divided into exterminators and exterminatees, with the former, at any given moment, predominating. Will power is useless without a sense of direction. Hers was at such a low ebb that it no longer gave her the instructions for survival.
It revived, however, without any effort on her part, and within the space of ten minutes on a Tuesday morning at the end of March. The weather was curious, and reminded her of the day she saw the flying heron trying to swallow the eel. While the washing on the lines was blowing to the west with the inshore breeze, the pumping mill on the marshes had caught the land breeze and was turning east. The rooks circled in the warring currents of the air.”
- from The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
August 30, 2017
movies watched (so far) in 2017, part ii
La Ceremonie
Re-animator
From Beyond
Les Biches
Party Girl
The Elephant Man
76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
demonlover
The American Friend
Inland Empire
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Night of the Living Dead
Spirits of the Dead
Days of Heaven
The Right Stuff
La Joli Mai (Marker)
Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Long Hair of Death
An Angel for Satan
The Pit and the Pendulum
Black Sunday
Nightmare Castle
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Castle of Blood
Sword of Doom
I Hired A Contract Killer
The Horrible Secrets of Dr. Hichcock
Eraserhead
Une Femme Douce
Logan Lucky
July 13, 2017
June 24, 2017
movies watched (so far) in 2017, part i
Daughters of the Damned
The Handmaiden
Partner (Bertolucci)
The Last Bolshevik (Medvedkin/Marker)
Duelle
Chambre 666
Poor Cow
Vladamir y Rosa
Naked
Ashes and Diamonds
Career Girls
Damnation
Elle
Christine
La Marge
Werckmeister Harmonies
Train to Busan
Rosemary’s Baby
Satantango
Toni Erdmann
Get Out
Don’t Breathe
Fermat’s Room
Memories of Murder
High and Low
Niklaushasen Fart
February
Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands
Despair
Fontane - Effi Briest
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Beware of a Holy Whore
You’re Next
Noroit
The Nun
Out 1: Noli mi tangere
La Rose de Fer
Violette Noziere
Aliens
Eraserhead Stories
Fire Walk With Me
Rumble Fish
Alien: Covenant
Alien 3
Alien: Resurrection
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Tag
Logan
Lost Highway
Black Christmas
Certified Copy
It Comes at Night
Life
Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol)
June 17, 2017
top five novels
mrs. dalloway - virginia woolf
a far cry from kensington - muriel spark
gravity’s rainbow - thomas pynchon
the course of the heart - m. john harrison
the lime twig - john hawkes
May 6, 2017
fypatriciahighsmith:Obsessions are the only things that matter....
Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness. - Patricia Highsmith
vintageanchor:
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils,...
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”
― Patricia Highsmith (New Year’s Eve, 1947)
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