A - 'fahey's is a life with a second act (that was its kindness)'.

horsemouth should be listening to fahey (it being fahey week after all) and have something useful and instructive to tell you about him. 

horsemouth is up. it's 8am ish. he's drinking his coffee (while listening to the julian bream/ benjamin britten).  today sun in the morning (best to get out early). 

facebook is showing him a number of fahey related memories (but not all of them).

5 years ago revelation by the side of the charles river dam (see here horsemouth takes a fahey title as his model).

6 years ago horsemouth repeats his belief that the title of fahey's city of refuge  is derived from blind willie johnson's run to the city of refuge. this is a belief that recent reading (see yesterday's post) has pulled if not apart then at least into the more interesting shape.  it may be that it is in fact derived from bible study (with johnson's song at best reinforcement). 

horsemouth takes this as a proposal. a thought experiment. 

7 years ago he posts a piece that is really on the second acts in american lives for fahey's life has a second act, he moves to salem oregon (and even after it falls apart it all comes together again). 

'there are second acts in american lives (there always were) - fahey will survive in exile and eventually be hailed and return too (sic.) be as curmugeonly as ever - but then he will die (because there's no escaping death).'  

9 years ago horsemouth thought this too 'fahey's is a life with a second act (that was its kindness)'.

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horsemouth has been reading dubravka ugresic's the ministry of pain about balkan refugees hiding out in holland. it all goes well before it succumbs to rage. 

and meanwhile in the now 

putin is off playing chicken with the west | the west is playing chicken with putin

complete the following list. what is the missing word?

    ________ pestilence famine death.