Spine & Arp: The Series

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"Weirdos of the Low Countries"
In the Theater of the Deep Spine
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Chapter 8: Escape from Spine & Arp
In which I plunge into an ominous cartoon on a pirate channel from the 80s, attempt a dangerous journey across the ruined BerkshireArts campus, and…
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Chapter 9: A Doomed Outing in Vienna
I become Arp, imprisoned in the Pale Oaks, where I am free only to pet the Spine and stroll through a Viennese nightmare with Dubravka
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Wake Island, May Edition
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Chapter 10: A Penance Play
I fall down and down and down, into a yet-deeper version of the story, which is also a version of the show I remember so well from my college days.
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The Feast of Fools
On Carnival, Imagination, and Heresy in the Age of the Trickster
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Ghost Hotel
Arp stays over...
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Rage of Mr. Derekis
War comes to Berkshire
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Chapter 11: Leopold's Art Lesson
Arp in Zagreb
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Chapter 1: Return to Berkshire
Ominous signs in the city, a surprise letter, an eerie train journey due north.
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Chapter 6: Franz Joseph in a Coma
In which I find myself in a monastery, under the needle of the Quay Brothers
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Chapter 5: “Ever Eastward, Deeper into Europe”
A nocturnal train journey through ruined territory; eerie signs about what lies beyond Berkshire; the Bomb, slumbering underground; a last-minute…
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