horsemouth is working up a version of blue oyster cult standard the revenge of vera gemini (dew there’s a lot of words, looks like patti smith was getting paid by the yard). albert bouchard sings it high (no way horsemouth is getting up there).
‘if you invoke a myth, you invoke all of it’
the great fish leviathan (the monster of the deep) is choosing to swim away from the EU into uncharted waters ('arr hoist the jolly roger and chuck the health and safety legislation overboard me lads!'). it is swimming away from behemoth (the monster of the land).
for years leviathan hauled its bulk onto the the land (shuttling between brussels and strassbourg) wearing a kind of behemoth costume and sat in giant conference centres debating important matters with behemoth (a kind and gracious host). unlike in japanese movie the monsters will not fight until one is vanquished, the modern world is not like that, they will sometimes meet at davos, nod to each other, perhaps exchange a few words.
in the half a century since leviathan was last in the water the world has marvelous changed (arguably it had in fact changed long before this). is there still a place in the world, between the sealanes and the container ships, for a giant seagoing monster? probably not. at 11pm january 31st leviathan set sail. god bless her. you don’t see many of them these days.
sadly she will be confined to coastal waters for the first few years.
coming up on horsemouth folk archive
- fahey week (feb 22nd to the 28th)
- basho day (the 28th),
- jackson c. frank day (march 2nd to march 3rd)
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