V.

[bandwraith at aol.com]

New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would
not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the
real story but isn't going to tell it.


http://goo.gl/hJUrer


she [thinks} of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a
battery and [saw] her first printed circuit. The ordered swirl of
housesand streets, from this high angle, sprang at her...with the
same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had...there
were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed
meaning, of an intent to communicate. There'd seemed no limit to
what the printed circuit could have told her (if she had tried to find
out); so in her first minute of San Narciso, a revelation also
trembled just past the threshold of her understanding.






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