horsemouth has finished 'black mass' - what next?

'if by any chance you see a cheap old yellow paged  novel if you go a searching for books. buy it as a student of mine needs one for her work...' 

- howard grange, email, 28th october 2025. 

horsemouth has done this once before for howard but at that time he lived in london. he does this no longer. 

the student lives in a city full of book-boxes and second hand bookshops and library sales...  and horsemouth lives in a muddy field. 

and horsemouth will get it to howard (and thus the student) how exactly? post? there's efficient! 

leave it with him 

in further book business horsemouth has noticed that the copy of f.a.hayek's the road to serfdom he promised to his brother has not been picked up, it had hidden itself in the racks. 

so horsemouth has finished black mass. what next? 

'to speak of interests in the absence of alternatives – imaginable and viable futures which are themselves historically constructed through struggles – is to speak of something unreal and abstract as if it were real and concrete.' - dylan riley, material interests, nlr sidecar.

dylan riley sets out the problem with material interests, in particular class interests, and how they are envisaged in the absence of an open class struggle.

it is morning. horsemouth has been out to feed and unleash the chickens. he's hearing the music from profondo rosso in his head. 

potholes on the road to net zero 

well horsemouth would like to get there. horsemouth would like to see global carbon emissions lowered and global warming at the least slowed if not reversed. to do this requires a vast change in the global economy (but that's not beyond the powers of global capitalism and the nation states of the world). 

he wonders how the communal endeavour is doing in its battle to insulate. 

he has begun reading stendhal's memoirs of an egotist (which goes well).