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Thursday, 14 May 2026

first in the city / last in the city (thus krishna on the battlefield)

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 'the shift from wanting to be first in the city to wanting to be last, is, by a mutation of pride, to trade a dynamic madness for a st...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

horsemouth's bargainings (an end to such speculations)

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'suppose we put an end to such speculations: total stagnation would ensue. for we act only under the fascination of the impossible......
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

depression, recession, market failure, shortage, rationing coming sometime (maybe).

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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 fictio...
Monday, 11 May 2026

'the bitterest bleakest may I ever saw...'

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on this day in 1872 tough times for kilvert.  'this is the bitterest bleakest may I ever saw and I have seen some bad ones. may is usua...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

culpeper's herbal and the prophet habakkuk

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on this day in 1872 kilvert meets the sawyer james jones. 'we fell to discourse... he said wild garlic, called jack-in-the-bush, is a fa...
Saturday, 9 May 2026

'some of the noblest lives are unrecorded upon earth...'

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'some of the noblest lives are unrecorded upon earth. they are not thought worthy among men, of being kept in mind. but they are recorde...
Friday, 8 May 2026

next time ( stupidest war ever)

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 an entirely written in the morning blogpost. that is because horsemouth was remiss in his blogging duties yesterday. he was (mostly) on the...