accumulated meaning ('as if the events of the world might become legible')

'how is it that dying people so often see a beautiful place or garden and beautiful little children that it has come to be an almost certain sign of approaching death? little katie died at 3 o' clock this morning, that hour in the 24 at which the thread of life seems to grow thinnest, for at that hour most people die...' 

- the reverend kilvert, 2nd october 1871.

'we do not write 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.

'... as if the events of the world might become legible, rising through the ink shadow of the page.'  - laura marris from states of plague: reading albert camus in a pandemic by alice kaplan and laura marris.

it is the day before in a bit horsemouth goes to take the eggs to the crossroads and to take the bins down the drive. the podiatrist has just been for his mum.  

he is glancing through previous october's blogposts - this is where he has learnt that october 8th will be the centenary of andrei sinyavsky's birth, october 18th the 15th anniversary of marion brown's death.

horsemouth walked into ewyas harold to post off the keys. later he phoned up the bank to cancel his rent cheques. he should probably have got on with changing his address right there and then (but hey). 

he has been out to the garden to dig up some potatoes.  he proposed some spinach also (there is rather a lot of spinach growing) but his mum said no (spinach tomorrow).

in the evening he watched a drama based on the phonehacking scandal and then he watched  caravan to vaccarès (1977) – 'gypsies, smugglers, and a deadly international conflict in provence' by alistair maclean. famous flamenco guitarist manitas de plata appears as one of the gypsies. famous racing driver graham hill appears as a helicopter pilot!

october (octobear - 8 bears) is of course a ber,  a cousin to the -embers. 

isn't it tory conference season soon? (horsemouth could do with a laugh)

horsemouth's mum is up early. horsemouth is up late. grey morning. bell-ringing later (probably). 

yesterday horsemouth had a brief epiphany about the prospects for mixing walk on the wildside and jimi hendrix's version of all along the watchtower together. he had a fantasy about playing an audience participation version of walk on the wildside.