'I shall speak straight out (because life is brief)'

'when anything of interest happens within or around me I make a mental note to tell you about it' - sinyavsky in a letter to his wife from prison, 1965.

title quote is sinyasky also (but re-punctuated in a horsemouth style). 

'we do not wrote a phrase - it writes itself, and all we do is to clarify, as far as we are able, the accumulated meaning concealed within it.' - - sinyavsky in a letter to his wife from prison, 1966.

horsemouth has been reading a voice from the chorus  by abram tertz/ andrei sinyavsky in preparation for the anniversary of sinyavsky's birth on october 8th (next your is his centenary). this book is compiled  from the letters he sent to his wife from prison. two a month for the 6 years of his sentence. after his release on 9th june 1971 he collected them into a book.

'because of the strict censorship control over what sinyavsky could and could not write in these letters, his references to camp life and to conditions there are of necessity subtly oblique. more open is the revelation of the inner world of the author's thoughts and reflections...'  - from the quartet encounters description of the book. 

it is a very rich sauce. horsemouth finds he is reading less and less and the sinyavsky suits this (in this it is perhaps even better than rousseau's reveries of a solitary walker or carlo levi's christ stopped at eboli).  

hail sinyavsky!

'housebuilders say that homes previously agreed to be built as affordable housing, under what are known as section 106 contracts, could be allowed for sale on the open market.' 

the argument is that the housing associations are too poor to buy the housing built for them as section 106 and that this should be sold on the ordinary market with the funds generated going to build more housing. the main result of this would be to help the government get closer to its total target for building new housing  but reduce the proportion that is social housing (or even 'affordable housing'). 

the government can then pick up the tab for housing the people not housed in these section 106 flats as housing benefit later on and the housebuilders can make increased profits. 

horsemouth forsees bigger profits for the housebuilders kerching! result!

it's a pretty good morning out there. horsemouth has fed the chickens and taken the milk over to the garage. in a bit he goes to open up the abbey.