all those elements in art which can be judged from a first draft

 'gradually, but steadily, winter approaches...' 

- the journal of henry david thoreau, 13th november 1858.

goethe's holiday is in some ways a drawing holiday, here he is in frascati in a few days time (15th november 1786) discussing it.

'... we sit down in a circle and each brings out the drawings and sketches he has made during the day. a discussion follows: shouldn't the subject have been approached from a better angle? has the character of the scene been hit off? we discuss, in fact, all those elements in art which can be judged from a first draft.' 

horsemouth does a lot less doodling in his diary than he used to. this is because he doesn't have his diary with him either on his way to work or at work (consequently less doodles, less faces, less sketches). he used to regularly graffiti his copy of city am (in particular allister heath's column which he took particular exception to). 

soon his diary will be done for the year 

he has a diary ready to go for 2027 (with the correct dates) but not for 2026 (unless he wants to carry on altering the days of the week day by day as he is doing currently). 2026 will begin with a thursday the 1st horsemouth has a 2002 diary that begins with a tuesday (maybe that is close enough). the next leap year is not until 2028.

perhaps horsemouth should go back to using an smaller undated notebook as a diary.  

here horsemouth is reading wylder's hand by j. sheridan le fanu which intrigues. he's possibly not putting enough effort into it to make real progress or indeed even to keep track of the characters. 

horsemouth was asked for some SF recommendations

PKD, jg ballard, m john harrison, christopher priest, anna kavan’s ice, brian aldiss, pamela zoline’s short story the heat death of the universe - horsemouth tends towards the new wave, russians, poles etc - lem, the strugatskys, abram tertz (andrey sinyavsky), platonov. two commentators on youtube are good and give good recommendations - book pilled and outlaw bookseller.

a sunny morning. (but coldish)