against reality (defend yourself)

'there are times when you have to defend yourself against reality' - andrei sinyavsky 

'to lee's cliff via railroad, andromeda ponds and well meadow. I go early while the crust is hard... cross fair haven pond to lee's cliff. the crowfoot and saxifrage seem remarkably backward...'  - thoreau, diary, 2nd april 1856.

thereafter, like rousseau, he is botanising. he does not want sympathy but beauty. once again horsemouth notes that thoreau is making a railway excursion (and that this ease of movement around the country requires railways). lee's cliff is a place he visits fairly often. 

he read a little of to the success of our hopeless struggle: the many lives of the soviet dissident movement  online. he struggled to get his mum's phone back up and working (having at some point turned it off). he watered various pots and plots and attempted to clear cut foliage of the banking. he read the forty things about living in poland  by ben sixsmith. 

outside the sun is up (it has rolled up over the hill on the the other side of the valley (it is precessing north) and a cat has visited (horsemouth thinks the black cat). horsemouth thinks 3 of runner bean plants are sprouting (yay). 

his mum is off to town. tomorrow they are doing a run on TESCO.