'as if the events of the world might become legible'

'I felt this mirroring all year as I translated the novel in quarantine, as if the events of the world might become legible, rising through the ink shadow of the page.' 

- laura marris from states of plague: reading albert camus in a pandemic by alice kaplan and laura marris.

horsemouth often returns to 2020. he thinks of it as the great reset but for many people worldwide and close to home it was work as usual (but with the added fact of death). for him it was,as he usually jokes, the apocalypse he would have chosen, the apocalypse of staying in and reading books. one of the book's he read was camus' the plague together with sontag's illness as metaphor.

by this point in the pandemic he had hit his stride with it - he posted the hanged man from the carnival of the end of the world tarot - the hanged man is upside down (deprived of contact with the ground and so deprived of the possibility of acting) but he is flying along being carried by an owl (so it's not all bad). in the tarot cards that horsemouth is familiar with it is not clear whether his hands are tied (though they look lie they might be), it is not clear whether circumstances have forced him into this role or whether it suits him to act so. 

maybe from where he is he can read the events of the world.

horsemouth has made it to friday. he has made it through the long and treacherous week. the (working) week (lest we forget). he read some documents. he plans to read some more and attend a meeting. yesterday a walk on the marshes - a model being photographed in the long grass, her dress alternately black then white. 

horsemouth ('a scholar and an antiquarian') has been reading the case of charles dexter ward by h.p.lovecraft. it is autobiographical in a way - the life of charles dexter ward in providence rhode island is strangely like the life of h.p. lovecraft in providence rhode island.

today horsemouth is unsure about. he thinks he has to do a weekly meeting.(he has borrowed ian's laptop once again to do it). thereafter he is free.  

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