What greater Miracle than to witness other people?
What greater Grace than to witnessed?
Everyone you meet is Suffering.
The World is Abundant!
[The meanderings of a burrower and grubworm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub]
Hello! This is Owen, though I tend to set my username on any given website as some variation of "Candle-Lit Scene", hence the title of this website.
A personal website like this may seem like screaming into the void, typing away to never be found or read by anyone. In all honesty, I don't really care! The internet—with its abundance of AI slop, SEO optimization, and "everything apps"—seems to be essentially dead, anyhow. I view this website not so much as a shout into nothingness, but instead as a bacterium happily snacking on the carcass of a whale slowly rotting at the bottom of the ocean. I can put things here that I find interesting and possibly share them with people I know. I am also someone who fundamentally likes tinkering, so learning how to create this website from scratch (and banging my head against the wall to get JS and CSS to work) has been reward enough for me. If you somehow stumble upon this page without me having sent it to you: welcome!
I tend to be a hoarder of information, so this page will likely be a mix of things I have made and recreations of/additions to resources by others which are otherwise defunct or hard to locate, which I maintain here to provide myself (and whoever else might find them interesting) easy access to! Speaking of, here is an outline of what can be found on this site:
A reproduction of David Cliffe's defunct Brideshead Revisited annotations, to which I have added several dozen new reference photographs and a handful of new entries.
Complete reproductions of Dürer's Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries and Of the Just Shaping of Letters, with togglable sidenotes.
Notes on various aspects of the game Pentiment, including the bibliography and soundtrack.
My music, writing, and other projects.
A list of one of my favorite kinds of movie: the non-horror ghost film!
The things i've been reading lately.
I like to take pictures of funny/notable grocery store aisle signs I see.
Photos of clouds.
This day is filling up my room
Is coming through my door
Oh I have not seen this day before
Here are some other websites I enjoy:
Literature
Power Moby Dick, an online annotated edition of Moby Dick.
And, in a similar vein, Melville's Marginalia, which documents Melville's handwritten notes in the margins of his personal library.
I also enjoy Robin VanGilder's chapter-by-chapter musings on the book!
James Eason's annotations to Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus (and other works).
This wonderful online edition of E. A. Abbot's A Shakespearean Grammar.
Music
Luke Dahn's Bach Chorale Index.
The Classic Banjo websites archive of Tutor Books.
Patrick Feaster's fascinating website documenting his "explorations in historical media, documents, inscriptions, et cetera."
Misc.
Cameron's World, and incredible "web collage" of elements from thousands of now defunct Geocities sites.
I don't know what to say about Embryo Jesus. Pro-life Outsider Art.
The Digibarn Computer Museum, a wonderful archive of materials documenting personal computer usage.
Bending Spacetime in the Basement: at home experiments to demonstrate gravity.
Change is a constant and so I am constantly changing!