how goes john gray's black mass?
p.25 and carl becker author of the heavenly city of the eighteenth century philosophers appears as christianity injects into philosophy the idea that human life/ history has a goal. horsemouth has this book somewhere (it was part of his utopian collecting).
it is a month on from the autumn equinox
we are a month into the long dark tunnel moving towards the winter solstice and ultimate darkness before we begin to ascend up and into the light. the celtic quarter day (samhain) is imperfectly placed at the end of this month/ the beginning of the next, slightly too early to be a half-way point.
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'the subjective experience of lived time is different' bookpilled/ thrift a life in a reflective mood and considering his life as a digital nomad.
a day in the life of the horsemouth
the guitarist of musicians of bremen tells us about his life in the beautiful herefordshire countryside.
all of this is, of course, a parody of a daily torygraph magazine column where celebrities tell us about their good taste weekends (shopping, fine dining, a little opera etc.).
7am horsemouth gets up. (more like 8am these days but soon to be 7am again due to the ending of british summer time). he puts on the kettle, opens the curtains and makes a cafetiere of coffee. while that is brewing, he will take the milk over to the refrigerator in the garage and let out the chickens (this used to be part of his mother's morning routine but it is now his).
soon the frosts will come to kill off the plants in the garden and in the greenhouse. horsemouth will then clear them out and horticulture will be over for the year.
horsemouth knows little about gardening so he is going to have to learn. the main thing he has learned so far is not to grow so many marrows.
as he drinks his coffee (black no sugar) he turns on the laptop and either blogs or posts up the blog he has written already, then he copies a link to the blog to facebook, checks through his likes, possibly posts up a memory from that day in previous years.
he can no longer listen to news briefing on R4 in the morning (it has been abolished) but he will check the bbc weather several times during the day.
9am-ish breakfast. porridge and toast in the week, eggs at the weekend, two pieces of toast, cup of tea. after this horsemouth will finish farting about on the laptop (the grauniad, housing news mostly, if he finds something there he will post it, of course he should stop with this, housing is no longer his problem).
in winter he often goes for a quick walkabout on the common - it's normally just a stomp around waving to the dogwalkers (but trying to stay out of their way).
12ish (is that am or pm? he's never sure.) he listens to the R4 midday news. he hasn't listened to a podcast from the FT for a while now (good to be reminded of them), he looks to see if there are any articles/ podcasts/ videos on LRB, nlr. probably a small pot of tea and two cheese sandwiches. he's always surprised there is no world at one on a saturday, it throws the day's rhythm about for some reason.
perhaps after this some more tasks or maybe a read or maybe a snooze or maybe a walk again.
4pm he'll start looking at youtube vids (bookpilled, outlaw bookseller, novara media). he's back to watching movies a lot.
at some point in the day horsemouth will play some guitar and sing. he's got most of his guitars here now. he has a hi-fi systems set up so he could in theory listen to the drawers full of CDs he brought with him (but he doesn't tend to).
when night falls he will go and lock up the chickens.
7pm dinner.
thereafter more fiddling about on the internet or perhaps reading. there's sometimes something on tv he wants to watch (but not often).
10pm(ish) news. and weather. and local news. and weather. (now horsemouth and his mum skip this).
his reading (of books) is much diminished.
his vision is getting poorer he thinks he probably needs glasses.
horsemouth's mum now makes do with the hereford times (it has a tv guide in it).
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