‘our life is frittered away by detail (simplify simplify)’

says thoreau in walden (ok, ok - horsemouth has modified the punctuation again, as is his wont). he lifted if from volume 3 of hoggart’s ‘autobiography’ an imagined life - and an amiable academic walk around it is. 

phew. horsemouth is done for the day and done for the week. his life has been frittered away in detail (yet again). he has failed to simplify (yet again). but one day they will simplify him and then he will have to go and get a proper job (boo hiss). until then horsemouth continues with his life’s labour of fitting square pegs into round holes.

‘people before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others and flourish and feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in the mirror’ - more hoggart.

today is the anniversary of the founding of king crimson in a basement underneath a cafe in fulham palace road in 1969. horsemouth is a big fan both of their prog bombast years and their wannabee talking heads years.

wednesday night he jammed with andrew minty - soon there may be another ‘performance’. tonight he may go out (he doesn’t know to what yet). sunday he may rehearse again. next week he works (not his usual beachside donkey portage bookings). he would like to be more available to do other things (babysitting, holidays, checks on collapsing buildings) but he’s not.