‘astronomers live on a diet of spiders’

horsemouth has been celebrating john coltrane’s monumental live from the village vanguard - frankly the coltrane album that stays with him - in particular india (the basis of the byrds’ eight miles high), chasing the trane (a relentless power trio beat the theme to death in front of our horrified ears - possibly inspired by john gilmore of sun ra’s band), spiritual (aided by eric dolphy and possibly a version of "nobody knows de trouble I see" collected in the book of american negro spirituals by NAACP activist james weldon johnson).

this one claims it was recorded november 5th and was originally included on the album 'impressions' but the sleevenotes of the revised and expanded 'live at the village vanguard' say the 3rd - bob thiele recorded 22 takes of 9 different songs over 4 nights. did horsemouth mention this was the inspiration for the byrds' 'eight miles high'? onwards to journey in satchidananda day november 8th.

‘that’s all very well, but let’s get back to reality; who is going to marry eugénie grandet?’ - balzac.

horsemouth is back in balzac’s universe (he’s reading césar birotteau - one of the ones less often found in english translation). in it he finds an early comment that could have been found in the dictionary of received ideas, horsemouth reformulates it thus, ‘astronomers live on a diet of spiders’ (maybe like the perch - the fish of wealth an artefact of translation - nope horsemouth has just checked the french).

‘she will walk only when not bid to, arising from her bed of nothing, he hair of time falling to her shoulders of space. if she speak, and will only speak if not spoken to, she will have learned her words yesterday and she will forget them tomorrow. if tomorrow come, for it may not.’
- parker tyler on hedy lamarr in the shadow and its shadow: surrrealist writings on cinema ed. paul hammond