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Paul Cooper

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Paul Cooper

@PaulMMCooper

Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020)｜Creator of @Fall_of_Civ_Pod｜Now on Bluesky: shorturl.at/yKbVV

Norwich, UK

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Joined October 2013

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Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Nov 18, 2024
From today, I will be moving my main social media home over to Ⓑⓛⓤⓔⓢⓚⓨ. If anyone wants to get in contact, I will no longer be available here, but you can find me over there: shorturl.at/yKbVV
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Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Jun 15, 2018
Human feet as a geological force
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Dec 27, 2017
Your plan for your novel vs how it turns out
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Apr 25, 2018
One of the most chilling abandoned places in the world is France's Red Zone, or "Zone Rouge". Over 100 years ago, the First World War so devastated the landscape here that people are still forbidden to enter, & the zone has become a ghostly & overgrown place.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Jul 20, 2018
One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, “the Gates to Hell”. Here crowds watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Jul 8, 2018
As the UK heatwave continues, the shadows of ancient settlements have begun appearing in the fields. Ancient ditches create lines of deeper soil, retaining more moisture and meaning the crops grow thicker. Source: bbc.com/news/amp/uk-wa…
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Jan 1, 2024
It has always been Giuseppe Penone's trees for me - the way he finds the memory of the forest hidden inside these big industrial beams.
b r o o k e *:･ﾟ✧
@peachlybeloved
Jun 16, 2023
y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:
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Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Dec 19, 2017
Medieval depiction of Twitter by Hieronymus Bosch
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Aug 24, 2018
The drought in Central Europe has shrunk the rivers & exposed "hunger stones", where people of the past recorded droughts & the famines they caused. One of the stones recently uncovered in the Elbe is carved with the words, "If you see me, weep." Source: npr.org/2018/08/24/641…
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Oct 8, 2018
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships. In their 1st century heyday they held gardens, palaces & baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Mar 2, 2018
One of the world's weirdest ruined & abandoned places is the Pennsylvanian town of Centralia. Its residents were forced to leave by an underground fire that's been burning beneath the town for over 50 years.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Mar 29, 2018
Ghost towns are rarely abandoned all at once. Whether caused by catastrophe or economic change, the decline is usually slow. But the strange story of Varosha, Cyprus, shows how one of the world's most popular tourist destinations became an empty, crumbling ruin overnight.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Apr 10, 2018
A thread on the creative and beautiful ways that the artists of the past repaired the flaws in torn and damaged manuscripts.
Paul Cooper
@PaulMMCooper
Oct 5, 2017
A thread-of-threads on my research into ruins: ancient, modern & imaginary.