wisdom with hindsight (in a two time track novel)

so horsemouth's snotty nose and sore throat seems to have abated and been replaced by a new improved snotty nose and a filthy cough. there's the odd twinge from the tooth. horsemouth's day begins with a coughing fit where he coughs up a lot of glycoprotein and then the coffee he had drunk for breakfast (truly life is unjust on more than one level). 

horsemouth has finished reading theresia enzensberger's blueprint, an enjoyable, if slight, fictional recreation of one woman's time at the the bauhaus - she gets to see both the weimar  and the dessau incarnations. (horsemouth believes he visited the dessau site in about 1995). 

on the cover is a colourised photo of students at the bauhaus (presumably the dessau site) - the girls lean out over the lip balcony, the guys  are on the ground floor appealing upwards, of the photographer (on the next floor up from the girls) we can only see the tip of a shoe. 

of course if the photo had been left in black and white its diagonal composition would have been more evident. 

our heroine survives the rise of fascism (and the less than wonderful attitudes and action of her mainly male teachers and colleagues) and escapes to new york where she works in the planning department. she is eventually bounced for opposing robert moses' midtown development and becomes a writer. time has revealed the problems with gropius's projects (as the book points out a walk up the hill to the social housing estates built to his plans and a few conversations with the tenants would have done so),  so there's a lot of that wisdom with hindsight (in a two time track novel) here. 

horsemouth is grateful to the author for introducing him to bruno taut (as well as showing him round two of the incarnations of the bauhaus). 

this morning a grey day. if the clouds part horsemouth will be sunning himself in  the front room. if they do not he will review the day from his bed. 

horsemouth has got his date for his booster jab (it's about 1 day earlier than he thought it would be but it's a much shorter walk).