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[A] horsemouth is up. he has his coffee. [B] it seems colder and clearer out. [A]he was dreaming about being a roadie (of sorts), punk rock nick seemed to be leading the crew. after the gig horsemouth was left behind but he ended up in a tower block with loads of musical equipment. there was also a hump-backed bridge but there had been a flood and water was flowing over it.
[A] 'and what can anyone understand who cannot understand himself' remarks montaigne in the footnote. horsemouth was reading his way through m.a. screech's introduction to the complete essays (a housebrick of a book).
[A] montaigne of course does the thing. he retires from life and makes use of his time to study. at first this does not go well. his mind turned on itself and he had to turn to writing to stabilise himself. for the studies of the time he has a major advantage in that he is probably the last first language speaker of latin (having been raised in that dead language by a very forward thinking parent).
[A] that said he writes in french. he wrote and he rewrote, resulting in a text littered with letters { [A], [B], [C]'s} to indicate the order of the texts writing or its additions.
[B] ok that's enough of that [A], [B], [C]ing. it disrupts the easy flow of the text and the easy flow of the ideas.
last one horsemouth swears
[A] as dante placing the virtuous pagans in a reasonably comfortable bit of hell (but hell nonetheless) montaigne has to accord the arguments of the classical philosophers the weight they have in debate round him and simultaneously handle the fact that they may not be as good a fit with the teachings of the church as is often claimed. he handles their thought with a careful patchwork of their own procedures to produce the desired result of conformity. (or so screech says of his commentary on an apology for raymond sebond).
[B] from here on in horsemouth will pretend that he writes without emendation or editing and that he never has second thoughts.
... and then we are on to the essays themselves where montaigne can stretch out at length.
let us look at book 2 essay 10 on books.
'I cannot vouch to other people for my reasonings. I can scarcely vouch for them to myself...'
there is even sunshine outside now (it is often more sunny in the mornings when horsemouth is writing than later on when horsemouth does manage to get out for a walk). montaigne is pleasantly doubtful and a good companion. in preparation horsemouth listened to a bbc essay series on him.
the book itself (being housebrick sized) is a bit too big to take out onto the common to read. it is impractical. horsemouth suspects it is too big for its binding and will thus prove difficult to read without damaging it. it was a gift from horsemouth to his father (it accords with his father's strategy) but as a single paperback it is unusable (really it does need to be split into separate books). horsemouth guesses there must be a collected essays round here somewhere (which would be more manageable).
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in addition to jai guru horsemouth remembers he has the beginnings of a song called spaceship modelled on gnossienne no.1 but in a ska/ cabaret style.
he'd got the first few verses and has an idea for the middle 8.
here he is attempting to follow howard's advice about making lists.
actually he had already made the list - making lists and writing things down is one of the main ways he forces himself to get things done over his natural laziness. people sometimes find this disturbing that horsemouth has a plan. that he likes to plan ahead. invariably a mob will arrive at some point (with burning torches and sharpened pitchforks) and horsemouth will be forced to flee.
today (the same as yesterday) a walk and a wander.
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