where did it begin? (moon in eclipse)

'he cannot even be honest in his memoir' -  lily dunn on reading her father's journal. in sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling.

it was the wild unravelling that caught horsemouth's attention, peeking out from under another larger book in the book box (powerscroft road). he has transferred his attentions to it after reading lovecraft's the rats in the walls (in volume 3 of the omnibus). 

it goes well with the auto/biographies theme (the ethics of life-writing). rather than father and son (gosse), we have father and daughter and the father has run away to join the bagwan... where did it begin? she asks herself. 

hers is a literary family - her father wrote science fiction under the name saul dunn and was a book salesman before becoming the writer and publisher of heavily illustrated new age texts, for a while he ran a publishing house publishing books by the likes of brian aldiss and harry harrison from the basement of the islington house he shared with his wife and kids. his wife was arguably the more successful author , the author of a noted biography of mary shelley (moon in eclipse). 

they were a gilded good-looking couple, but his good looks gave him plenty of opportunity to play away and was soon enough off to join the bagwan shree rajneesh. now the way the teachings of the bagwan are portrayed is as a DIY course in psychopathology ('I am responsible for my happiness. You are responsible for yours'). then there's the well-nigh gangsterism of the oregon adventure and then there are the multiple 'safeguarding failures' at the retreats. the whole thing is looked at from the view of the  people left behind. 

ok an electricity outage problem requires horsemouth's attention. later.

it is later. horsemouth has just blown out a walk with TG (and is regretting it).