Handke's Weight

 Really really enjoying Handke's journal now.  Just past half way.  Doctoral dissertation: analyze the journal as the fulcrum, the inflection point (to use this awful new term), or just study it's dictionary for the fun of it as a self-contained logo -verse.  

So many lines of such interest, power, dismay, strangness, rage, feeling, intimacy, insight, boredom.  He really shows what can be done, how not easy it is to produce such a volume in a year and a half, two years.  What else was he writing then, if anything?  "Sex: the ultimate enmity."   149  How much is observation, how much fiction?  "I go on talkimg while passing through the revolving door of a luxury hotel.  That'll show them."  150  

Rested all day hoping to get ride of the sore throat and cough from yesterday.  Took Va's stuff to Optum in the morning.  Bought another panera salad for her lunch, I had lentil soup.  

Slave to advertising again:  I wrote to Alcami saying hey where is my golden spoon and golden frother for the daily ritual??  

Change our return air tix to early morning through the MSP airport now that I learned that terrible info about weather over the ATL airport.  Explains why we got re-routed and canceled last summer.  Never again spending the night in an airport.  Going out next Jan might even go all the way to Phoenix or LAX and spend a night or even two to make the trip better.  

Looks like Gabriela won't be back to help out or swim.  No surprise there.  Bela on the piano now.  Will Pablo come back?  

Tomorrow the B&L lunch.  

Richter's Seasons

Chatter this morning super.  We both loved the music, Max Richter's reworking of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  Big chamber group, wonderful sound, wonderful example of contemporary genius working with earlier genius to create old-new, new-old.  Woman next to me named Suzanne and her friend, Ginny, arrived yesterday, two day drive from Madison.  Here for few weeks, second or third time they've come for the sun and the air.  She grew up in Skowhegan, Maine and went to Madison for college and never went back to NE.  Majored in history and felt that was enough, didn't have the confidence in it to go any further in that direction.  Son with four children live near her, daughter works for the state department, currently stationed in Alberta.  Fun to talk with her.  Would have thought she was 78 but she said she is 85.   We agreed that 80 brought significant change in sense of what is going on, who we are, what's next.  Later Kith came to talk with us, she was thrilled with the fetish "necklace" we gave her, the ex voto sorts of things on the red silken cord.  We can't recall where we bought those.  Still have one at Rogers St.  Really missed not seeing Barb and Ed and Lou at Chatter.  See them on Tuesday.  

Looking into flying back and found out ATL has super high cancellation rates these days.  Will change to the earliest booking and/or look at American to see if they have more or different routes.  Coming back next winter should we look for other routes also.  

Slight sore throat this evening.  Watch two episodes of Pacific Criminals, it had upped it's budget significantly.  Still doing page or two at a time with Fosse.  Bit like Antunes in effect?