horsemouth is up and awake. it is another beautiful morning in the ghetto (in the ghetto)...
he is indebted to his diary. in which he wrote down the phrase the rediscovery of man (he thinks it was a book title).
sunday (slightly ahead of his schedule for the week) a walk with TG (no photos) and bookbox finds
roger zelazny - eye of the cat and isle of the dead in a double edition
horsemouth started on eye of the cat but it was dull and so on advice he turned his attention to isle of the dead (which was immediately much better). zelazny takes us to tokyo bay (an expanse of dirty polluted water and beaches) and explains that life is like tokyo bay, the tide brings things in, the tide takes things away. it's a good opening.
after an afternoons sunbathing/ reading/ listening to podcasts in the back garden horsemouth cooked and ate (fakemeat spaghetti bolognese). he watched the news. he played a little guitar out of a Gmaj.7 shape in a lomo style. he watched some vlogs from bookpilled and outlaw bookseller (fast forming a mutual appreciation society).
there was the usual sunday phonecall to his mum. they've done the plant and produce sale for the village hall. it was a beautiful day.
the podcast he listened to was will be wild - it's title taken from a tweet by (then) president trump inviting his supporters to the attempted insurrection of january 6th 2021. it's about how people in the government knew that this was coming but were prevented from doing anything to stop it. there's another episode today.
it's also about why people were there and it's about who was there and it's about what they will be doing next. trump (in a similar way to johnson with brexit) attached himself to a dissatisfaction with the way society was being run and even if the figurehead falls the people will simply switch their support to another disruptive candidate who offers then the same feeling of agency. the neoliberal argument that they should go home and stop messing with the smooth functioning of the state and the economy that is driving them down into poverty simply does not appeal.
one thing the pandemic and black lives matter showed was that people were prepared to risk death to have political agency.
people normally pass horsemouth's window going left to right (as on this page) the morning sun on their shoulders. two people just passed going right to left (backwards through the text) their eyes slightly shut, the sun on their faces.
horsemouth has not been out for a while (out to see the pretty dancers of the black eagle).
this week the one year anniversary of the last stroke of work (ever?) horsemouth did.
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