'one must above all do as others do' - the sheep of the panurge

the sheep of the panurge do the thing that lemmings are supposed to do - when one falls over the cliff the rest of them jump. horsemouth is doing his best to avoid any mention of jubilees or such like. 

at the moment it is greying over but bbc weather shows a very pleasant day for horsemouth's visited area (it is showing him those big smiley sun logos and temperatures north of 20 degrees).

yesterday horsemouth had two encounters with napoleon - the first was in henri beyle (stendhal)'s a life of napoleon (sue ryder one squid plus a one squid lottery ticket - remind horsemouth to check it later today).  napoleon returns from elba, he is feted by the peasants and the poor. he goes before his army tempting the enemy to shoot him down sweeping up all before him. 

'the editor has done no more than make a collection of those sentences which seemed to him to be to the point' - stendhal, preface to a life of napoleon. 

later on napoleon appears in terry gilliam's the time bandits - he is interested in the punch and judy show and small people, he is obsessed with his height. he has lost interest in conquering italy. (horsemouth once owned a copy on VHS cassette).

at the allotment he met a very pleasant austrian woman (a friend of  D and C). he did some watering and then he headed off into town.  up at the allotment some rotters have been fly-tipping building waste out at the top gates. the allotment holders have to pay to have it cleared and/or clear it themselves. they were most grumpy. 

the plan for today is to go for a walk round epping forest with howard (starting at chingford). after the weekend howard is back to the grind, D+C return

last night there was a double bill of val lewton/ jacques tourneur films on tv - I walked with a zombie and cat people, but horsemouth failed to watch them, instead he watched more of outlaw bookseller and bookpilled as they wrestle with the inchoate beast that is science fiction and then time bandits. towards the end of june there's the leigh on sea folk festival and the anniversary of the release of the humming.