nostalgia (the dream)

'people must be capable of making and keeping promises to one another, such that there isn't a constant threat that everything will start all over again.' - william davies, the reaction economy, LRB 2nd march 2023.  

so alice coltrane slowed down to 24rpm. (heavenly). 

after the genius of the six-bullet russian roulette player story in mircea cartarescu's nostalgia horsemouth was finding the kids on the estate story dull so he switched to the last tale  where an architect becomes unsuitably over-enthusiastic about car horns. (at a time when such a thing could barely be purchased in rumania). this is going well. 

nostalgia was originally titled and published as visul ('the dream') and was first published in a mangled by the censor version. both of these are terrible titles in horsemouth's opinion (but nevermind). 

tomorrow for the equinox (early in the morning). tomorrow night there is a management committee meeting of the communal endeavour - horsemouth should hurry up and write something for it. (but first he needs to go and get some bread for toast for breakfast).