(les fleurs du mal) imaginary libraries and 'journaling' (sic.)

'waiting in the gloomy library to which she conducted me, I could not refrain from glancing at the volumes with which the shelves were congested.  they were an ungodly jumble of tomes that dealt with anthropology, ancient religions, demonology, modern science, history, psychoanalysis and ethics. interspersed with these were a few romances and volumes of poetry. beausobre's monograph on manicheanism was flanked with byron and poe; and les fleurs du mal jostled a late treatise on chemistry.'

 - clark ashton smith, the devotee of evil.

so how is the clark ashton smith going?

well now that we are on to a lovecraft type story - evil posho summons ultimate evil with gong bath (the devotee of evil) - it's all going really rather well. the stories are often strangely short (and strangely padded) - they set themselves up nicely but then lack development and finish too early, almost as if they were written for a capitalist marketplace by someone who needed the money in a hurry. 

back to the imaginary libraries. horsemouth has tried to line the walls of his room with books. (he is near to succeeding). of course to get mobile he will have to potlatch loads of these. similarly with his CDs. 

later today a zoom meeting (hopefully they will have done enough), before that some blogging. 

horsemouth has forgotten what he was up to yesterday (and yesterday evening). ok no he watched a bit of an appreciation of john carpenter (on tv) and the teaser trailer for the judee sill movie (on youtube), he read some of the clark ashton smith. as soon as it went dark  he reviewed it from his bed. 

there are lots of clips on youtube about journaling. good looking and earnest young women will tell you how journaling for one year/ five years/ ten years changed their lives. horsemouth has been at it for longer than that and it has not changed his life (it has merely reconciled him to it (to some extent))

yesterday he made a curry (potato/ sweet potato/ chick peas/ onions/ peppers) and ate that (he will finish it off for breakfast). 

soon the temperatures will take a dive and it may be time to turn on the central heating (horsemouth is holding out, he has put on a jumper) - the house has built up a decent advance on the energy bills and (failing that) there is still the government's 66 a month to turn in. next winter energy bills will rise another 20%, council tax bills 5%, inflation who knows. there will be some money from the government to smooth this over but long term (medium term/ short term) it is bad news. it is becoming more expensive to just live.