'pages of rambling incoherent argument or trivial reminiscence' (the last love song)

'a heterogenous mass of prose, in which passages of profound reflection alternate with pages of rambling incoherent argument or trivial reminiscence and pieces of serious and subtle criticism lie bedded in matter whose interest is long since dead.' - introduction by helen  darbishire to de quincey's literary criticism. london, henry frowde 1909

last night  the last hawkbinge podcast of the 70ies (the end of the golden years and the silver years) - a nod to live 79 (the declaration of the new project). live 79 is where horsemouth comes in - it is on that tour that he first sees them live, granted he has heard lord of light and has bought quark, strangeness and charm. they open with shot down in the night. 

in the day horsemouth made two walks on the common -he is thinking of renaming the top of the common hergest ridge (even though it is not hergest ridge) . 

later a zoom beer with howard (who was back from christmas celebrations). horsemouth hadn't done his homework so the discussion could not take place. howard seemed taken by the collage of dreams notion which horsemouth mentioned as being present in both the white guard  and in dylan thomas's under milk wood. 

he read some of a biography of joan didion online. it occurred to him that joan and philip k.dick were probably knocking round berkeley at the same time. (both are very californian writers). if he could find the joan didion book he left here he would probably read it. 

it's a grey morning. we are nearly at the end of the year. horsemouth will probably not attempt an end of year list but he will attempt an end of month list (of books read, films watched etc.)

having dispensed with the proformas (and the books he has read) horsemouth is probably going to have to work out what to say to you directly.

you find horsemouth at a transitional moment and it's not just that he is stuck between years or hiding out at his parents in the countryside. the work has ended and so the necessity to stay in the seaside towns has ended. on the other hand horsemouth has no firm real plans to move out. he has a somewhat enlarged library to potlatch for starters. hell he even has some furniture (not just portable bookcases and boxes of books). he certainly has guitars, some keyboards and other musical instruments.