'they can abolish time' (horsemouth makes it to yet another morning)

 and indeed here he is. huzzah!

he is sitting up in bed typing this wearing two jumpers and jeans and a little woolly hat. sadly the moths have been at the topermost jumper so it doesn't look as stylish as it once did.

the day before yesterday - aldi, the yester day - asda (fuckers). asda overcharged him for some linda mccartney sausages (which he bought in bulk because he thought they were on offer). but when he got to the checkout it turned out not. (fuckers). he also went in search of a ramadan tinned beans offer but the best they could offer was two tins for a quid. jesus we are all going to starve (or have to learn to  pressure cook dried beans). 

the diana athill book (somewhere towards the end) is most excellent. having dispensed with old age, sickness, sex and death, she has moved on to her hobbies - gardening and drawing. 

she is most fascinated by drawing (but gives it up because she is never going to get good at it, as good as she is with words).

'they (drawings) can abolish time...perhaps oddly drawings presented as works of art are less likely to have this hallucinatory effect than private notes or studies.'

it is, horsemouth thinks, like barthes' grain of the voice, the movements of the hand that went into making the drawing can be seen in the 'finished' work and 'read' by people who themselves draw. time is thus abolished, the viewer has a vision of the artist drawing. this is similar perhaps to canetti (who gets a mention) and his fetish for manuscripts of author's works (when author's did not type or word process).

drawing (the activity) has made her better at seeing things because drawing trains the hand and the eye, the eye to see what is actually there and the hand to draw it accurately. at least this is athill's interest. the other students in the class seem interested in cutting directly to the modern art.

horsemouth also finished off listening to the lovecraft investigations - a bbc sounds series that reframed lovecraftian themes as investigated by a true-crime podcast. it was a particular favourite of his during various lock-downs and stay-homes.