horsemouth calls a team meeting of his correspondents

horsemouth supposes that the current moments of inactivity (he is sleeping a lot and farting about on facebook a lot) will presage an explosion of sociability and hugging when this is all over (or maybe not, maybe we will have all grown emotionally distant and a neue sachlichkeit will reign over all).

to discuss these matters horsemouth called a team meeting of his many selves from across time.

there were a number of technical limitations meaning that all participants had to be reachable by digital devices and there were bandwidth issues that limited the participation of those on dial-up modems (ask your grandad). the result was that we were presented with 21st century horsemouth’s only and in particular those after 2010 (and many of those during from periods of rest and relaxation - working horsemouth’s declined to participate).

from left to right and clockwise we have; in Ze’s garden in porto horsemouth (2016), summer holiday at the flat in pop(u)lar horsemouth (undated), 2016 exploring porto horsemouth (a few days later), drunk dancing horsemouth from 2019 - recent (but not very helpful), a mildly drunk horsemouth from a christmas in the early 2010s with johnny and denise, and horsemouth out on a wander with john clarkson from 2020 in the olympic park.

there were some distortions in the feed, ghostly voices muttered in the background, strange music was heard (it kind of sounded like amon duul). there were other distortions, some horsemouth’s seemed not to be unitary horsemouth’s but temporal collages - at the flat horsemouth complained he was being filmed by another horsemouth on a laptop (but that only his shadow was visible), drunken dancing horsemouth said there was another drunken dancing horsemouth in the room who sometimes butted into the conversation and answered in his stead. all our respondents were summer or winter horsemouths, we had no spring or autumn respondents, one third (but it frequently seemed like more) were intoxicated, one third were out with friends and so had to be circumspect about answering (horsemouth says sorry to his friends if you thought he was acting strangely or seemed distracted).

overall the meeting was not productive.

olympic park horsemouth was mainly interested in transforming into a giant version of himself and destroying the olympic park.

drunken dancing horsemouth would frequently interject YES! CUMMON! LET”S HAVE IT! into the conversation,

on holiday in porto horsemouth’s were more interested in discussing porto rather than the business of the meeting. the porto horsemouth’s were particularly keen on the globalised world and air travel and grew surly when it was pointed out to them (by christmas horsemouth) that they weren’t representative of horsemouth’s experience.

christmas and poplar flat horsemouth expressed incredulity when brexit was mentioned and threatened to terminate the call on the basis that this must be some kind of joke/ exceptionally unlikely alternative earth.

none could shed any light on the origins of the virus which has decimated humanity and forced us to live in holes underground. none expressed any interest in taking up medical training or campaigning on issues of increasing pandemic resilience, most opined that it was just a power grab by the state, an instance of racism, an attempt to limit the freedom and mobility of the working class.

none had heard of a radical organisation called the army of the twelve fruit bats (poplar horsemouth said it did reminded him of a black and white movie, but olympic park horsemouth said it was a cable TV series).

all attempts to contact future horsemouth’s (to see how this will all turn out) have failed.

horsemouth will attempt to return to an earlier points in his life when he was in love but also crucially there were digital devices. this is made difficult by the absence of any digital resources from these times (the dial up modem barrier) or even photographs.