infinite liberty (scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations...)

'all sorts of people dreamed of an utopia and infinite liberty...' - chestlin, persecutio undecima, in christopher hill's  a world turned upside down. 

 '... scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations - are of interest. those that show the thought processes of the artist...' 

- sol lewitt, paragraphs on conceptual art, artforum, june 67 

well this is kind of max brod's idea. and the idea of autobiography. kafka was struggling to produce something much more modernist and minimalist and pared down in his fictions and brod spoiled it by slathering it all in autobiographical sauce.

how many years do we have to sit with kafka's diary with him claiming he cannot write until we are obliged to go yes he really struggled to write. horsemouth is trying to do it in real time he's up to the diary entry for 5th may 1915 ('nothing. dull slight headache. chotek park in the afternoon.' )

'for each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.' - the twelfth sentence from sentences on conceptual art, sol lewitt (1968).  this is  precisely what kafka was trying to foreclose. 

howard is sending horsemouth a letter.  he's taken to sitting in cafes writing letters with a fountain pen. they had zoom beers (horsemouth had one bottle of butty bach). horsemouth proposed they cover pastures of plenty. after the phonecall he took a look at it and decided it might be a bit too complicated. 

(night time. there was just something moving at the window. horsemouth thought it was the face of  the black cat had got up on the glass roof (but no it was a moth)). 

it's another beautiful morning. horsemouth is going to start shovelling dirt before it gets too hot and then, later on in the afternoon there's due to be a thunderstorm and a week of rain begins (eek). he's been hearing fat old sun by pink floyd in his head a lot lately. he's realised it was a tune he learnt from a songbook without having heard the original (thus he learnt it incorrectly but he doesn't seem to have done too badly).