spem in alium (40 part motet)

so tonight horsemouth observed a vote to buy 3 bedspaces of social housing - on the way there he passed a concrete nibbler working into the evening under spotlights in the rain to tear down an estate of social housing. you can see his point can't you...

horsemouth is back having circumnavigated the south east of the city in good company. there are photos - sadly horsemouth, in the process of mis-explaining parallax has been caught making the universal 'it was this big gesture' , he's also seen holding forth outside italo svevo's house in charlton. horsemouth has since read more to improve the tour guide experience.

they then went to re-enact blow up in maryon park before taking the silvertown ferry back (one of the last great clanking electro-mechanical experiences to be had in this city). it was there that horsemouth and ant-knee split off from the main party (who were carrying on to east ham in search of a dosa) and returned by the docklands light tramway.


at the start in st.alfege greenwich (the first time horsemouth has ever been inside) there was a conversation with a royalist old lady in front of an organ once believed to have been played by thomas tallis(but no longer). the leader of the tallis scholars (james burton?) rehearsed the choir. greenwich had fallen on hard times once the royal palace had moved she said - hence the large number of well preserved houses.

horsemouth is continuing to enjoy the goncourt journals but by now there is only one of them jules having died in a distressing fashion of syphillis - first he loses his sense of tact, then his pronunciation returns to that of a child,

'over that beloved face, once so full of intelligence and irony, that shrewd and wonderfully malicious countenance of the mind, I can see the haggard mask of imbecility slipping minute by minute,'

in a restaurant he cannot use a bowl properly and people begin to look, edmond reprimands him and he begins to cry 'his tense, trembling hand sought mine on the tablecloth'. they both break down in tears. on 20th june 1870 jules de goncourt dies in convulsions.

edmond, the older brother lives on , and after a few months begins to write again - witnessing the prussian invasion and the commune and its supression. he lives (and writes) on to 1896.
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 it is only just slightly over two weeks since horsemouth's gig (as the musician of bremen) but already he has forgotten it. he has discovered he has misunderstood tallis's spem in alium - it is not that the writer of the text puts his faith in others (as horsemouth would be wont to assume) but that he doesn't put his faith in others but only in god.