18th book of the year: “SPQR”, by Mary Beard
Wanted to read some history after the last few things. Kept seeing Beard press over the years, saw she has a new book out and grabbed a used copy of her old stuff instead.
lotta “assassinated for tyranny after proposing social and/or land use reforms” Kermit-confused-face.bmp
lotta good stuff on how normal people lived
next up, the most recent Paul Auster, “4321”, cya in like a month or two probably
oh, one thing you’ve learned was against your will? must be nice!
asleep by 9:15, wake up at 4, mentally review damage taken (doh) and given (oops) yesterday, pad down to the kitchen at 5, turn the lights on as dim as they go, make coffee, start to read scrollback and accruing damage for the day
get annoyed by the ambient noise the fridge is making, use a smart-switch to power off the fridge, replace it with ambient noise somebody else made, cozy up by the speaker https://schwebung.bandcamp.com/album/radiance
RADIANCE, by Stephan Mathieu31 track albumSchwebungkid up at 5:40, we’re watching spiderman and doing the moves :||
lol lmao that ‘judgement’ is correctly spelled ‘judgment’ in some uses and visa versa
c’mon
17th book of the year: “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” and “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” by Amos Tutuola ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303496.The_Palm_Wine_Drinkard_My_Life_in_the_Bush_of_Ghosts)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of GhostsWhen Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard…GoodreadsThe story I enjoyed in Black Water 2 was an excerpt from “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” (which is subtitled “and his dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town)
I preferred the drinkard because more of the stories in it seem like little self-contained myths. And of course I’m glad to now have a connection back to the Byrne/Eno album that I love.
