complete silence and historical amnesia (in anticipation of seasons yet to come)

it's glorious wednesday but (in anticipation of seasons yet to come) it is raining out there. horsemouth is sick of the rain already. he's waiting for his dad to get up so he can have a cup of coffee.  

horsemouth made several walks up onto the common yesterday. a pre-breakfast wander, a lunchtime wander, a gentle wander round with his mum later on (they'd done down to the abbey and out to the crossroads the day before). the ground was mostly dry rather than muddy (its default setting). 

horsemouth is potlatching his almeria bm nylon strung guitar. very nice for someone learning to play (but unlike his paesold unlikely to be worth money). needs a new d string. free to a good home. when he gets back he'll make a list of his russians and poles. 

there was some discussion of j.g.ballard. some people have a magazine about him (would not a rock opera be more apt). it has the look and the feel of a ballard annual (most strange). 

the ethics of betrayal (murder by autobiography)

'who can forgive him for having confessed mme. de warrens while confessing himself.' - george sand on rousseau

if you tell the story of your life (and the truth of it) do you not at the same time tell it of your associates? what gives you the right to do this? horsemouth brought the ethics of life writing with him (another chapter is called judging and not judging parents). given the rain it does not look like he will be sitting out on the common reading it). 

'the aberrant form that my idolatry has assumed is the desire to write.' - philippe lejeune 

iinstead horsemouth tried some sujikos and sukos (3 by 3 square 1-9 number deduction games). he had some initial successes but then he was discouraged by his failures and stopped. he listened to 2/3rds of a documentary about the 1918 'spanish' flu (a swedish friend recalled the old folks talking about who died in it, he called it the american pig flu). it is important to get this in perspective (it was huge) and to note how quickly it faded from the historical memory, obliterated by what came before and what came after. 

as horsemouth notes there is a plan to go to frome. it is most important that horsemouth doesn't get roped in as naviagator.  (phew he's just sorted it with his dad).

a time and and date has been set for the unveiling of the blue plaque for robert calvert...

the unveiling will take place at Arlington House Flats on friday november 25th at 1:30 pm.