'create the marvellous by contagion'

no kilvert today. 

in the 1934 diary anais nin is in new york but she's hanging out with otto rank. back in 1940 everyone seems to be writing a diary and their pages are getting mixed up with hers. henry miller is off on a year long road trip (and, by and large, he's hating it). this becomes a book the air conditioned nightmare. (horsemouth probably has a copy, if he does it is back in london). 

anais thinks people are getting dragged of course from their artistic mission (to 'create the marvellous by contagion') by events in the world. 

yesterday was villa diodati day - when mary shelley had the dream that led her to write a horror story. that story became frankenstein while staying at the villa diodati with lord byron, percy shelley, dr. polidori, clare claremont etc. 

horsemouth read the first few pages of will burns' novel  paper lantern at myk's recommendation. youngster lives with his parents who run a pub in a chi-chi village during covid. this is the kind of thing horsemouth is interested in, the re-evaluations that took place during covid, its particularity. 

from here on in a written in the morning blogpost. 

horsemouth tends to think these are more authentic (but he couldn't make you an argument as to why he thinks this). 

horsemouth expects to be back in london next week

himself and his brother have a plan (he thinks) for horsemouth to return on the friday and then his brother to come round to horsemouth's early on saturday morning so they can load up the car with books and guitars for his brother's drive up to herefordshire.  

having failed to persuade his mother that his dad's old bookshelves (sawn up and used for storing things in the garage) should come into his room, horsemouth now plans to have things stored in the garage (at least until he gets back). it may be that his dad's old bookshelves can be cleaned to his mum's satisfaction so that they can come in the house or it may be horsemouth will need to get more shelving built.

or it may be that his chattels are just going to go into storage in the garage for the duration (whatever the duration is). 

his mum is off into town today with a friend (so she's up early). 

horsemouth will get this posted and then get on with the watering.