horsemouth described as an autobiography

'for four days almost no work at all, only an hour or so all the time and only a few lines, but slept better...'  - franz kafka on this date 1914.

during the night of the 19th/20th horsemouth couldn't sleep and so tried reading a little of  luis buñuel's my last breath.

the first chapter is memory  (as befits a memoir) and who we are when we no longer have it. unfortunately horsemouth found it difficult to read with his blurry night-time vision (and so he gave up and went back to sleep). 

the buñuel is described as an autobiography but since it is co-written with jean-claude carrière (and this is acknowledged) it can't be an autobiography.  there is a chapter written by  buñuel's sister conchita also.

in the morning he re-read it. he has lent his brother his copies of marguerite duras practicalities and carlo levi's christ stopped at eboli. (hence his shift to the buñuel).  these are just about his favourite books. as rob doyle in  the irish times notes practicalities might have been better titled 'marguerite duras talks about whatever comes into her head'  and this is pretty much horsemouth's strategy when he writes. 

rob doyle's list of books (one a week for a year) is pretty good - there's the duras, there's dostoyevsky's  notes from the underground, there's nietzsche, there's PKD (valis), there's sontag, there's kundera. 

today zoom beers with howard probably (unless he is too knackered). october 22nd is a folkways NTS radio day (and at night there's the VOID). monday night there's a mancom (on zoom) so horsemouth will not be seeing jacken at folk in the cellar. wednesday there's another quote from the young kafka from 1914. october 29th in the seaside towns there's a showing of a jackson c. frank documentary it will probably be sold out. 

such are the things that horsemouth looks forward to (even if he is not necessarily attending them).

when horsemouth woke up there was a strange orange light (now we are back to a grey day). the autumnal leaves are blowing around but it is early days yet. his brother has returned to the seaside towns. his dad's old truck has been sold and the guy has come and collected it. in a bit horsemouth will go out and look at the gap where it was. 

he has moved the sunflower (and the other flowers from the pots from over near the garage) into the spare greenhouse the better to try and extend out their lives as the frosts start to come. they will need watering. the bbc weather says rainy then grey for the weekend (thereafter more rain).