far from the madding crowd (a vagabond)

above a mix by dave webb from his most recent new river studios show.

'he who practices art is a vagabond, a nomadic survivor who will never find a home among people who have become settled.'  — adorno and horkheimer.

at least that's what art forum claims in its article on mario merz. 

horsemouth listened to a podcast about crowds with novara media and dan hancox largely based on the work of premier crowd theorist gustav le bon. horsemouth had not realised that le bon was an eyewitness to the paris commune of 1871 - this may mean re-reading him soon.  dan seems to be more of an elias canetti man (crowds are good, well if not good at least very human) but he doesn't seem to say so (which horsemouth finds strange). 

a package has arrived 

(but not the package you understand). 

if it arrives horsemouth will let you know. 

horsemouth himself is far from the madding crowd (but that doesn't mean they don't still drive him mad).