horsemouth will now have to find something else to read

3rd august 1914. kafka is staying in his sister's house. he's depressed. he was going to be married (but not any more). 

3rd august 1763. things are going better for boswell 'I should have mentioned that on monday night coming up the strand, I was tapped on the shoulder by a fine fresh lass...'

1870 and kilvert is still down in cornwall (and having so much fun he does not make diary entries, or at least ones his editor thinks worth recalling). 

ok so horsemouth's fence appears still to be standing (no break ins by the sheep, no break outs by the chickens). a greyish morning (but difficult to tell). bbc weather reckons rain later (from midday) possibly a decent tomorrow. horsemouth may try getting out for a quick walk early. 

horsemouth has found two talking heads discussing carlo levi's christ stopped at eboli. they are showing the 4 hour italian tv version and there's an exhibition. the man who did the subtitles talks - if it was dialect they left it untranslated so as not to crowd the screen and hide the images and so as to show carlo levi's own perplexity, as a man of the north he cannot necessarily understand what is being said by the locals much of the time.

the second guy does a great job of situating levi politically. it's obvious that he's a part of some group of leftists, but the question is which particular lot (if that matters). 

a chunk of one of horsemouth's teeth has snapped and fallen out. fortunately it seems without any particular pain or infection. at some point horsemouth is going to have to get that bit of his mouth sorted (there are other niggling health things he is going to have to pay attention to). he has been doing odd bits of cycling on the exercise bike and (of course) going for regular walks up on the common (or down into the village if his mum has an errand that needs running). 

having finished the coetzee horsemouth will now have to find something else to read. there are brod's comments on the chronology of kafka.  

today a visit to the garage to pick up the hereford times (and a few days back supply of the daily torygraph). horsemouth's dad was very keen on the crossword (and to be frank the politics of it).