a literary causerie. by way of epilogue

 

and didn't it rain children! (well not so much, probably more rain today but at the moment golden hour sunshine)

horsemouth has been progressing with stephen calloway's aubrey beardsley (who autographed horsemouth's copy october 6th 1998, with the year in the style 19.98). 

at first horsemouth went hunting for ernest dowson (having just finished a biography of him) but beardsley disliked dowson so while there are 13 or so references to him there is nothing in depth because they had few real interactions. failing this horsemouth went back to the start of the book and investigated beardsley's early career (welcomed by burne-jones, spurned by william morris, browsing the now vanished second-hand book barrows of holywell street). 

he spent a little time reading, a contemporary of theirs, arthur symons, in the collected drawings of aubrey beardsley, 

a literary causerie. by way of epilogue was the title of symons' afterward in the final issue of the savoy (banned from w.h.smiths for the 'indecency' of a blake illustration).

later today john from porto comes to visit. possibly a meet up with enza in the evening. tuesday a delivery. thursday a zoom meeting. saturday (equinox/ birth of john coltrane) the journey back to herefordshire.  sunday (the death of pharoah sanders).