Good Morning from Manhattan Beach, 1970. Chap. 16, the IV of IV

[Robin Landseadel]

Tito gets out of Las Vegas via his weird limo on page 248:

	"Nice town, but let's lose it."

	Like spacemen in a space ship, they were pressed violently into
	 the seat backs as Tito engaged some classified performance
	feature, and outside the windows city neon began to lengthen
	in long spectral blurs, to shift toward blue ahead while in the
	black distances framed by Tito's mirror each point of light grew
	reddish, receded, converged. Tito had Roza Eskenazi tapes
	playing over the car stereo. "Listen to her, I adore that chick, she
	was the Bessie Smith of her day, pure soul." He sang along for
	a few bars. "Tidtimo merdki, who hasn't had that, man? a need,
	so hopeless, so shameless, that nothing nobody can say
	means shit." Sounded like more addict talk to Doc, but after he
	got used to the scales and vocal styling he found himself
	thinking about Trillium, and wondering what she'd make of
	these rembetissas of Tito's and the particular kind of longing
	they sang about.

Into the time tunnel:

	Eskenazi is considered a model for other singers because of
	her personal style, technique and passion. Unfortunately, the
	censorship of one of her songs "Πρέζα όταν Πιείς" (the  
title
	meaning "When You take Heroin") by Ioannis Metaxas lead to a
	marginalization of other midwar rebetiko singers but opened
	the way to the school of Vassilis Tsitsanis. Before World War II,
	Eskenazi travelled as a singer in the Balkans, Turkey and
	Middle East. After the war, she toured the United States and
	Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Eskenazi

The song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHVxX9DZbq0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw6HbOgfSSw

http://www.amazon.com/Rembetissa-CD-Demand-Roza-Eskenazi/dp/B0000002SI

http://www.btinternet.com/~judyin.london/rozaeskenazi/rozalife.htm

On Nov 29, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> See the timeline on the wiki some careful reader has reconstructed.
> It shows that in this chapter and the next, THERE IS AN EXTRA DAY!  
> WTF?
> Did TRP just slip here, as Hemingway has been found to do in one of  
> his,
> Sun Also Rises, I think? Or, is it purposeful and therefore  
> meaningful?
> We do know how TRP has focussed on 'lost time' in M & D and time in  
> all the work, esp. AtD, with time travel and more.