IVIV20: Eternally present, 365-366

[Paul Nightingale]

Sparky denies any responsibility for the coffee machine's 'Volare', saying
he might have preferred 'Java Jive'. Doc suggests he's too young, and Sparky
insists: "It's all data. Ones and zeros. All recoverable. Eternally
present." 

Well, Volare dates from the 1950s, and Java Jive from the 1940s, but new
versions will constantly update them. For Sparky everything is here and now,
the past reconstructed over and over, "recoverable". The narrative seems to
invite a privileged reading (Sparky's "the wave of the future" on 366) but
refuses the closure that would imply.

This reference to recorded music (analogue to digital) might also send us
back to Doc's lament on 362: "Oh wow, did I miss that?" (362). Assuming no
recorded version, official or bootleg, the Surfadelic Freak-In is a one-off,
accessible ("recoverable") perhaps as oral history: Hope's speech down the
page ("the one thing ... she keeps going back to ..." etc) or even Coy's own
recollection on 363.

On 366 Doc thinks of another loose end ("... this network of yours, does it
include hospitals?") and Trillium is made present as what Hayden White would
call traces.