the dead have not died in vain

john is up. he is slightly hung over but is recovering. 

following on from their trip up to walthamstow yesterday horsemouth is up a few copies of the NLR (new left review) one going as far back as issue 37 and the most recent one from some point in 2021. they saw jimmy page's tapestries (at the william morris museum) which were very rich and pre-raphaelite. it took horsemouth a while to overcome his resistance to the material. there was a julia margaret cameron photo which horsemouth liked and a drawing/ watercolour(?) of kelmscott house. 

over the road at the sally army horsemouth bought a hard guitar case (a rockcase by warwick) and a soft padded gig bag (rosetti - with such a stylised logo he thought it said rose morris). he wasn't tempted by the books. the hard case is too heavy and bulky for comfortable transport (horsemouth prefers the greater ease of transport of the rucksack type soft-case models) but will be good for storage.

in the afternoon/evening they watched onibaba (grimness, fear, isolation and lust in japan beset by civil war). 

horsemouth's NLR acquisitions go well with the ovenden book on syriza he is reading - we have just crossed the anniversary of the UK leaving the EU, the people who watch these things economically tell horsemouth that it has been a disaster (but then the EU's austerity was a disaster for the people of greece also). 

so, looking back on it, what sense can we make out of the wreck of time.