'the record books of the institution are missing (and are doubtless long ago destroyed)'

some werner herzog to be going on with (jstor has come up trumps)

'beyond volkertsheim spent the night in a barn; all around there was nothing else, and so I stayed, although it was only 4:30. what a night. the storm raged so that the whole shack, which was solidly built, began to shake. rain and snow came sprinkling in from the rooftop and I buried myself in the straw. once I awoke with an animal sleeping on my legs. when I stirred it was even more frightened than I was. I think it was a cat. the storm grew so fierce that I can’t recall having experienced anything like it...' - werner herzog, of walking in ice,  28th november 1974. 

he had spent the night before in an inn in vöhringen. 

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'the record books of the institution are missing, and are doubtless long ago destroyed. these chapters have been compiled and written from a few memoranda, at various times, very often after the arduous duties of days of professional life, and with a desire only to present the subject truthfully, faithfully and simply; and also, not wholly to gratify curiosity, or to record the doings of the noble men and women who were wise before their time....'

-  john thomas codman, brook farm; historic and personal memoirs.

at one point in time horsemouth was interested in utopias and radical communities. the tendency in marxist thought is to marginalise these and to refuse to pay any attention to what took place within them. 

what's the phrase marx uses? the cookshops of the future. 

'the paris revue positiviste reproaches me in that, on the one hand, I treat economics metaphysically, and on the other hand — imagine! — confine myself to the mere critical analysis of actual facts, instead of writing recipes (comtist ones?) for the cook-shops of the future....'

- karl marx, afterword to the second german edition of capital I.

and yet there must be some vision of the future even if it is only negatively sketched by what it is not.