ATDDTA(11) San Miguel As Nymph's Mirror [305:10-19]
Keith
keithsz at mac.com
Sun Jun 17 13:24:05 CDT 2007
This passage merits savoring:
[305:10-19] He led Frank outside under the chill, imponderable cone
of an electric bulb high on a pole, and they walked amid the feral
discourse of the cribs, while a gunshot occurred back down Pacific
Street, somebody climbed to a rooftop and began to recite "The
Shooting of Dan McGrew," and nearer at hand single-jackers climaxed
and ruffled doves wailed, till they were down beside the river, where
the Row had been squeezed to by more respectable forms of commerce,
and it was possible to stand with the ungoverned electric town at
your back, the untraveled night in front, with the San Miguel
between, brand new out of the mountains throwing flashes of light
like declarations of innocence.
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cone of an electric bulb high on a pole:
http://tinyurl.com/35mecq
Sounds of animals fucking. Humans shooting, reciting and fucking.
Facing the uncertainites of night, the reflection of stars and the
moon in the San Miguel river as it flows from the mountains standing
in innocent contrast to the lights of the ungoverned town behind,
foreshadowing the nymph's mirror reference later that same page.
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