‘this restless hungry feeling does a body no good’ (an action whose meaning we can no longer be sure of)

aargh! horsemouth is out of time with the universe. thursday he went for a pint with sten (which turned into four), they ate, and chatted to various locals (pleased to meet you peoples - even the attempted table reserver).

in the morning though he felt anxious (daryll seemed to be having boat difficulties but by afternoon they had evapourated). it being long good friday the libraries were shut so horsemouth had to forgo his communion with the world wide confession (ok he sneaked onto sten’s computer later in the evening but still). john clarkson was due to come and johnny was over visiting and there was a garden party - but horsemouth did not feel up to it and stayed in (feeling bad about staying in).

horsemouth watched johnny cash: the man, his world, his music - johnny cash seems to be suffering with something - the whole time he's not onstage or in a recording studio his interpersonal 'music' seems to be wrong. whence the first quotation at the start of this post. johnny cash visits his family's old place, the family sing, he plays san quentin. later horsemouth watched a bit of pride and prejudice with zombies  (which cheered him up a bit).

in an old london review of books (rescued from recycling) horsemouth found an article about writing a biography of chaucer that mentions in passing foucault’s moi, pierre de riviere... (and thence rene allio’s film of the same title). pierre murders his mother, sister and brother - his case is extensively documented in the courts and by pierre himself (who writes a kind of autobiography). whence (from the article) the second quotation at the start of this post.

tonight horsemouth will be staying in being good - sunday he's working with howard he needs to be on tip-top form.