'a condition of complete simplicity (costing not less than everything)'
- t.s. eliot much gidding from four quartets (repunctuated in a hosremouth stylee).
everyone and everything and anything that changes - there, that about covers it.
horsemouth supposes this habit of his (of placing subordinate clauses in brackets) derives from song titling (it's where he chorus goes, the lines from the song the prospective purchaser can actually remember).
his choice of t.s.eliot derives from listening to a michael goldfarb podcast - goldfarb is a classic american anglophile (like eliot) but 50 years later how's it looking for him? uncharacteristically in a series for the essay on radio 3 he discusses the non-hollywood films of his time in new york ending with barbara loden's wanda.
to avoid parting company with barbara loden too early horsemouth is compelled to mention that her life forms the basis of nathalie léger's novel supplément à la vie de barbara loden (translated into english as suite for barbara loden)- in the french wikipedia entry we discover that barbara's film wanda is based on the life of real life bank robber alma malone. there is more sympathy for this case study thinking in france - think of foucault's publication and commentary on the confession of murderer pierre riviere, moi, pierre riviere...
alma was from kansas (the appalachian backstory was loden's). the bank robbery took place on the 23rd of september 1959. it pretty much goes down like it does in the film. alma gets a 20 year jail sentence, she thanks the judge, this is the fact that interested loden in the case, but alma thought a death sentence was possible so it makes sense. alma was in jail for 10 years until 1970. she gets out, moves to live with her sister. but then she takes up with another wrong'un, jumps parole, vanishes and is never heard from by her family again.
last night horsemouth watched kansas city confidential (another bank heist movie). yesterday he walked up to the supermarket (not the one in the fields) - so about 3 miles there and back. this evening he'll walk over to the offices of the communal endeavour (so slightly over 4 miles all told), he has been a bad boy and failed to do his homework perhaps the best solution is to spread the load.
thursday maybe he'll walk 5 miles (and so on). friday is bandcamp friday. next week the 20th anniversary of 9/11. horsemouth's administrations have so far not resolved themselves.
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