yesterday's filth (all sorts of vague resolves)

'all sorts of vague resolves. that much I can do successfully...'  - franz kafka, diaries, 29th september 1915.

franz observes a  fresco with a caption in czech, something like 'though dazzled, you desert the wine cup for the maid, you will soon be back wiser.' 

this is on ferdenandstrasse (ulica ferdindova). in 1919 after the fall of the austro-hungarian empire it will be renamed národní (the people) street. online there's a discussion of ferdinandstrasse based on the postcards available of it. this spills off into a discussion of the postcard itself (by 1870 it will be widely used across europe and kilvert will be hailing it as a capital innovation). 

'in the afternoon I couldn't keep myself from reading what I had written yesterday, 'yesterday's filth'  didn't do any harm though.' 

horsemouth took a quick look at an article on the book bildnerei der geisteskranken (artistry of the mentally ill). prinzhorn's groundbreaking study, the first of its kind, gained much attention in avant-garde circles interesting artists such as paul klee, max ernst, and jean dubuffet (who coined the term art brut (raw art)).

horsemouth's mum is away in birmingham (she went to the ballet last night with horsemouth's brother and horsemouth's brother's wife). she is back later on today so horsemouth had better tidy up.