'celestial forces... terrestrial interests' (humanity)

'some feelings are like dreams that pervade every corner of one's spirit like a mist, and do not let one think or act or even be.' - fernando pessoa, the book of disquiet, 35 (159), 21st april 1930. 

it has all gone quiet (and it is a beautiful day). horsemouth's brother, his brother's wife, his brother's two kids and his brother's son's girlfriend have all departed. 

he has pressed man in a high castle, high rise and christ stopped at eboli on his brother's eldest. 

as horsemouth says it has all gone quiet. the cooking and washing up all reassume manageable proportions. 

in a bit horsemouth will sit out and read. he is reading balzac's eugénie grandet from whence;

'between celestial forces and terrestrial interests' 

dostoyevsky apparently began his career by translating the novel into russian, in 1843. apparently it is based on the real life of balzac's mistress marie du fresnay. 

jacques camatte has popped his clogs. horsemouth really only knows the name. here's a book he could read. 

'one can only speak of the victory of the proletarians to the extent that one simultaneously affirms that they will not realize it as proletarians, but in negating themselves...."

-jacques camatte, capital and community (remarks), 1972. 

horsemouth has edited this remark to remove camatte's 'in posing man'.

horsemouth supposes this is why the dust up with the ICC (and perhaps why their shift to and 'humanity' rather than just the working class. 

his name and jean barrot (pen name of gilles dauvé) were the key names in circulation when horsemouth was first introduced to this stuff by his friends. (not that he ever really understands it you understand). 

horsemouth begins in bourgeois liberalism, revolts into anarchism (animal rights, ecology etc.), becomes interested in this stuff (left communism). later he has an apolitical break before becoming interested in western marxism (largely through the aesthetics of adorno). meanwhile people who began in academia with western marxism seem (by the early 2010s) to have become very interested in the work of camatte or gilles dauvé. 

this week  horsemouth hoped to be away (or at least away for some of it) but instead he is preparing for the week after when there are annual general meetings of the communal endeavour and such-like. 

outside it is a rainy and grey day.