'I walk straight between sun and moon...'

'an immaculately clear, cool morning. everything is hazy on the plain, but one can hear life down there. the mountains, full and distinct in front of me, some elevated fog, and, in between, a cool daytime moon, only half-visible, opposite the sun. I walk straight between sun and moon...'

- werner herzog, on walking in ice, 4th december 1974. 

tonight a full moon (the cold moon). 

horsemouth has finished reading wylder's hand  by j. sheridan le fanu. as horsemouth surmised he has been dead all along. he doesn't think you will be too shocked to hear that, nor does he think knowing it will impair your reading of the novel. so much action in the weeks from his death to the body being discovered. the evil lawyer larkin's schemes have miscarried. dorcas and rachel lake make their escape to a gondola on the lagoon in venice (where we see them for the last time). 

'all affection is illusion, and perishable with the deceits and vanities of earth.' 

horsemouth will post up his review to goodreads.  

now he will have to find another book to read. 

after much cursing horsemouth managed to top up his mobile phone (ok it looks like he spoke too soon).  

in a bit he's going to go out on an egg delivery. everything has worked out on the going to the doctors front. his mum is off in town looking at some suits she had altered. a beautiful autumnal afternoon. a neighbour was out cycling. a neighbour was out walking their dog. golden sunshine spilled over the hill from the common. 

and now we are rolling towards nightfall. 

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young fingerpicker hayden pedigo (interesting dude) has published a list of his favourite fahey albums (interestingly it includes none of the later revenant ones as it were, nothing after 1992's old girlfriends and other horrible memories for example, nothing, indeed, after 1971).

1) days have gone by (1967) - a good entry point, he says and the only one on this list horsemouth actually owns.

2) america (1971) - 'fahey's masterpiece... a patchwork quilt of the story of american music'

3) the great santa barbara oil slick (live 1968/69) - 'fahey's greatest album' 

4) the yellow princess (1968)

5) the great san bernardino birthday party(1966)  - 'the most psychedelic acoustic guitar album of all time' 

horsemouth would probably have live in tasmania  for the live album. he'd probably have fare forward voyager instead of yellow princess. he'd probably keep days have gone by. that would give him two spaces on the list for fahey's later (and often electric) work - red cross disciple of christ, perhaps city of refuge, nothing from the post takoma years, nothing from the orchestra albums.

here a rainy, dark morning. his mum is wiped out after yesterday's trip to the doctors and trip to town.