AtDTDA: 19 l'heure vertigineuse [529]

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Wow!, Your situation makes my getting fired sound like some 
bagetelle—of course my situation really is, no heavy weather 
out here, more like Op. 126 #6—a door slamming open to 
paradise, Josquin, Eno, Nick Drake in a good mood, only to 
slam shut about four minutes later. I am beginning to enjoy 
my little vacation from so-called 'reality', scryeing our text like 
a rebbe—what can I say, we've got a little Cohen blood in the 
family veins. Beats 'work', let me tell you.

If you feel, lost, don't worry—right about at this spot in the 
book we're supposed to feel disoriented and displaced, like 
we drove nonstop from Kansas City, and woke up on the 
floor of the Anarchist frat house just south of People's Park,
the one I used to go to when Food Not Bombs had access to 
their kitchen. You'd get some interesting conversations over 
there, let me tell you. . . 

Here's a few write-ups on Berkeley's continuing 'disorintation'. I'm sure 
Berkeley/Oakland is a primary inspiration for these scenes in the 'Grand Dyke'.
Of particular interest is the 'Disorientation' Manual from Barrington [folks 
would sing that frat houses' name, to the tune of 'Terrapin Station':

                                     Bar—ring—ton!

http://tinyurl.com/2tbs5m
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2005-05-04/news/tale-of-two-animal-houses/
http://tinyurl.com/2rd7hv
http://calpeacepower.org/0301/coops.htm
http://realizingthevision.msu.edu/nrcppc/documents/Berkeley.pdf

      Bekah:

      Thanks Robin!

      This is just a note to say I'm still here but swamped at work.   I 
      have kept up with the reading and am somewhat ahead (my second 
      reading and I'm listening along on an audible version with Dick Hill 
      narrating - great stuff - I listen to some sections over and over 
      while playing mindless computer games or mindlessly doing doing 
      laundry and dishes, weeding and deck swabbing.)   I'll try to have 
      something to say this week or next - whenever.

      The tornado efforts in my ND home town are going well - it will take 
      years to recover from an F4 tornado though!   The grandbaby is 
      thriving.   My mom comes back to CA this weekend and I'm going up to 
      ND for Christmas.

      
Po-Mo sounds wafting in the background
[via a single-layer sacd, already preterite] 
Beck: Lost Cause, from "Sea Change'.