'we are here as on a darkling plain' (two types of darkness)

 'the owl of minerva flies at dusk and armies clash by night'  - horsemouth, yesterday's blog title. 

this is of course assembled from two quotations (or near quotations).

‘the owl of minerva spreads its wings only with the coming of the dusk.’ from hegel's the preface to the philosophy of right, followed by, 

'and we are here as on a darkling plain

swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

where ignorant armies clash by night' from  matthew arnold's dover beach. 

for hegel what was really going on in an era only becomes obvious as that era ends, for arnold the world (for all its promise) is a dangerous place (in this, one of the most anthologised poems). it seems to horsemouth there are two types of darkness here.

so the braverman coup attempt is over (for now). in which braverman seizes operational control of the police. never mind soon enough the tories will have the new laws to do it for real. 

here we are with vashti bunyan's rosehip november. horsemouth also listened to some of linda perhacs talking about how she came to write her music. 

horsemouth begins the week with the memory of recording a guitar part for CATASTRO/fille. he listened to the (un)finished result a while ago - it still sounds good. all horsemouth was trying to do in his playing was pull out the tune that was there already on top on the verse, find something similar for the chorus  and put some pleasantly creepy ECMish bits round it. ideally he would like to finish this off but he may just have to be happy with the demo track. 

this morning there is rain through sunshine. his mum is just back from feeding the chickens. in a bit breakfast and then some shopping.