horsemouth lifts the above quote from a description of annie ernaux's writing technique (currently being serialised on radio 4). to him it seems to resemble something by georges perec.
he's been trying a new review of the year technique. he has grouped the year into 4 month periods - round the major events (for him) of the year, and tried to write differently about it, looking at what he has to say that was not about what he was immediately reading etc.
'mary wollstonecraft was influenced by rousseau’s reveries of a solitary walker (the most charming of his books largely because he claims to be disillusioned and not to care anymore).' the ernaux is almost as if he were to pass off one of his other books as autobiography. horsemouth dug reveries... out of his bag yesterday.
et tu jenrick, suella, etcetera etcetera...
for a brief second horsemouth imagined that robert jenrick had resigned because he supported human rights and felt that the government's rwanda policy as it stands was an affront to human rights (which it is) - but no, he doesn't think it is enough of an affront to human rights. for a brief second he imagined robert jenrick was having an attack of principle.
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