having finished reading the bird of the dawning
horsemouth supposes this as unlikely a name for a ship as ever proposed in a work of fiction. he thinks the author wanted to call it the cock but his editors refused him. (certainly this is the nickname the sailors give the boat in the book).
what to read next?
horsemouth supposes he should return to reading italo svevo's a life or he could finish off reading benedict anderson's imagined communities (or indeed isaiah berlin's essay on herder).
yesterday afternoon his mum went to the village. his mum was going to go round and visit a friend but her friend has had a fall and is currently in hospital. (such are the travails of growing old).
future events
sun ra day (may 21st and 22nd, london (uk) and birmingham (alabama)) is coming up and the bournemouth electronic music open mic night (EMOM).
some friends have a bookfair up in high barnet - paper arts museum bookfair 22nd to the 25th may in ravenscourt park
in june
triple negative have a gig coming up on the 19th (but it's in nottingham).
the leigh folk festival is coming up (lou and leo, the owl service, belinda kempster and fran foote, diana collier etc.).
depression, recession, market failure, shortage, rationing
coming sometime (maybe).
horsemouth doesn't think people have got a measure of how bad the fallout from the gulf war will be (even if it were to end now).
add on top of that the fall of sir keir and the labour together project and his slow motion replacement by andi B or whomever. add on the rise of reform and the 'parties' to the right of it (restore, the tommies). add to that a tory party desparate to claw its way back into power and an electorate already willing to nod through the policies of shabana mahmood.
horsemouth does not like the look of it.
this morning. it was a bright sunny morning when horsemouth was trying to sleep. once he was up and around it had clouded over and gone cooler. he was up late. today a dry day with maybe even sunshine (it says here).
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