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blue​-​dappleisling airrhymthmia

by Simon Aulman

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head II 02:26
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crucifixion rain 02:25
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innocent ten 02:53
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agonistes 02:44
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tarascon road 02:57
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figure on the edge of a tide 02:00
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croucher 01:22
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syringe 02:01
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for isabel rawsthorne 01:35
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spurge serendipity 01:21
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torsion 01:20
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painting 1946 01:23
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raincoatingencock 01:06
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skull, tension visible 01:52
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skulten invisibly 01:23
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dance 02:22
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Well I like this tiny simple little thing very much and I can't hold on any longer, even though it was meant to be about 90 tracks and 2 hours long. I've tried to keep this quieter and less rhythmic than usual - I just want to go back to the simple drifting days - but god it's difficult, the lure of "progress" and trying to resist it.

yes I know that's not how you spell arrhythmia(?), it's not how you spell dappleisling either

The photo was taken yesterday morning on my walk home from Calshot. It was a remarkable walk for several reasons. The stunning weather of course. And the fact that a ship was stuck in the sort-of swing-bridge by the disused power station and I couldn't cross it and had to go the long way round - well inland. This detour added an hour to my walk.

The most beautiful thing about it all though was the fact that I did the whole walk without any pain in my wounded knee. I'll be honest. For some of the past few weeks since I fell down my staircase I've thought that I'd never be able to walk far or fast ever again - it really felt that life-changing.

After days of consulting Dr Google and Dr Youtube I came to the conclusion that no one has a clue, that doctors are still to be avoided - until I get dementia, I think - and that I must rely on lots and lots of rest and allowing myself to fall asleep whenever I'm remotely tempted.

I am usually a bad sleeper, in the conventional sense - I never just plonk my head down on the pillow at 10pm and instantly fall asleep and wake all refreshed at 7-30am after a fab solid sleep. Instead I sleep very bittily. Usually three times every 24 hours. Early night, early morning, mid afternoon. Something like that, unless I'm doing stuff etc etc etc. But these few weeks I've been sleeping four or five times per "day" - and I genuinely think I've spent more time asleep than awake.

I just pass this info on - because I have discovered that sleep is the great nurse, the great doctor, the greatest cure we can have. With my knee I quickly learnt that exercise was worse than useless - it set me back. I learnt that the lure of the surgeon and the smiling bill or the long wait were the traps that set people on a lifetime of permanent illness.

This album is short but I think it can be played on repeat - possibly random-repeat is best, though I don't think so right now - and because it is all so samey you have no idea where you are in it, and so it feels like two hours or even two days or the weeks that I slept - though I have nothing to show for them except a happy knee, nothing was wasted.

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recorded over the past few days, yes some areas will arouse the deja-vu, photo walking up alongside Southampton Water yesterday morning, the disused power station on the left (click on the photo), the stranded ship in the photo over that way somewhere in the blur, elsewhere Southampton and the Fawley oil tanker port

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released January 17, 2024

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