'life in its fleeting trivialities' (time, young, old, art, artist, colours, cities - venice, ravenna, florence and siena)

horsemouth was having assassin dreams. the people were smart (a quality horsemouth values) so this presented him with something of a moral dilemma. the dreams have all gone now horsemouth can remember that he had them but not what they were. 

book pilled has given us a moment of mourning and closure with the sci-fireplace. he loves his jack vance but could not get on with the robert sheckley. 

above a takoma park compilation beginning with fahey himself and featuring the great max ochs' raga II. 

'yes we are scythians!... russia is a sphinx, triumphant and mournful.' 

having quoted blok horsemouth should read more about him - he has a book about blok's italian journey  by gerald pirog (1983 slavica - second hand one squid). it is completed with the academic apparatus of  a frequency dictionary of the words and the principal semantic fields (time, young, old, art, artist, colours, cities, regions, sounds, music, songs, singing...) but its concern is mainly with the sequencing of the poems and their arrangement into books and cycles (so a concern transferable to the world of music). 

blok's trip to itay began may 1st 1909 or may day in the cyclical calendar (that's definitely a sign horsemouth should read it) and ended june 21st (so basically the solstice). he and his wife visited 13 towns in umbria and tuscany, they didn't make it to rome like they intended. the poems mainly focus on venice, ravenna, florence and siena. 

'life in its fleeting trivialities may be a cherished gift to the poet but it as much a burden as the art which carries him away from it'  - pirog. 

horsemouth's memory of having read a life of blok was correct. he has  avril pyman's the life of aleksandr blok:volume 1 - the distant thunder (1880-1908). so sadly this does not cover blok's italian trip. as a child blok acted in a nursery  play with his cousins of a journey to italy,  

we approach may day (beltane) one of the celtic quarter days. 'april is the cruelest month' because the weather cannot be relied upon. but from may we are into the fruitfulness of the year. 'cormac describes how cattle were driven between two bonfires on beltane as a magical means of protecting them from disease before they were led into summer pastures.'

the poems and passages in cyrillic he has no chance with. likewise the passage in what he takes to be transliterated russian, the quotations in latin he has very little chance with. (horsemouth was a bad latin student). 

today some reading and some waling about. the binmen have been (hail the bin men).