'I would stand at the table and register in this celestial sort of ledger the innumerable little items which constitute a writer's book-keeping: dreams, plans of attack ... and so on..' - henry miller, preface to the air-conditioned nightmare.
dreams
he has remembered a past lover in a dream (this pleases him). horsemouth hardly ever remembers his dreams and certainly not by the time he's made coffee and hand cranked the computer into operation. he has zadkiel, sibley, freud and jung on hand for interpretation.
plans of attack
seeing as there's so much conflict in horsemouth's existence (well in his head at least) and seeing as almost nothing ever happens in horsemouth's life without him having the opportunity to think about it first, horsemouth is almost never without a plan of attack (usually formulated as a list), similarly,
plans of defence.
usually horsemouth tires himself thinking about these things even before actual hostilities begin. consequently he tends to avoid most conflict (very wise) but sadly does not manage to avoid thinking about it. while horsemouth may dive into writing something unprepared at some point he will get pen and paper (and it is almost always pen and paper) out and begin to make a plan, to sketch out the major oppositions, to note down the key phrases (see obsessive phrases op.cit.). derrida has trained him to look for the hesitations in a text but deleuze enjoins him to treat those hesitations as deliberate moves.
remembrances
horsemouth is a very forgetful creature - that is why he keeps diaries, notebooks, draws spider diagrams, venn diagrams. at the moment he is vexed at forgetting the chords to a song he has not played in maybe 5 years. titles of books/ songs horsemouth tries to keep a list of books he has bought, a list of books he has read, and tries to write about books just after he has read them in an effort to jog his memory and critical faculties into engaging with them. it would be a shame to have a book pass beneath horsermouth's eyes and have it emerge undigested at the other end. further he keeps several lists of songs he plans to write or learn to play or it might be possible to play. he keeps a list of good lines or quotes both from books and from life. writing things down is one of the things that works for him.
names and addresses of potential creditors this one is not relevant to horsemouth - in general he subscribes to the principle (inculcated by his scottish granny) of neither a lender nor a borrower be - he never borrows, he never lends out real sums of money. one of the things he is most pleased about is a certain financial independence and having a flat of his own (at least until he loses his job) - this means he can suit himself (this is important to him).
obsessive phrases
horsemouth is always on the look out for these - largely to serve as titles to his blog posts but also as weak points in an argument (tells - see derrida, adorno), indications of ideology .
editors to harry
during his theory writing phase this was more important to him... but no not really... similarly with promotors to harry, he is a bit remiss about sorting out gigs, recording etc. - he would pay a manager to do this for him, he really would.
battlefields ah where would the cantankerous old mule be without his conflicts?
monuments
the entire borough of hackney, the monkey-on-a-stick housing co-operative, various recordings, articles, desecrations and scribbles, his extensive and eclectic library (not so much his record and cd collection, his cassette tapes have pretty much gone west already). to be frank horsemouth's cultural legacy bothers him, he just sees it all piled in a skip after his death...
monastic retreats
his parents place, his flat, spain, portugal, the czech republic, brittany, the salt marshes, bow ecology park, east india dock - broadly anywhere he can wander around and read books in the sunshine and scribble a few notes in his diary.
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