Apocalypse: "Not for Sale in Canada"

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 4 13:02:37 CDT 2000



Mark Wright AIA wrote:

 But this is a fictional character
> who, therefore, isn't dreaming and can't do the interpreting, and so we
> are free to have fun interpreting ourselves, aren't we?
> 
> Or some such truck,
> Mark


Of course we are! The opening scream is Tom Waits: 

And the earth died screaming
While I lay screaming of you. 



So much depends upon a blue automobile
glazed with rain water
beside the brown rats. 

Carlos Willie Williams



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