Liberty Mutual bot makes this memorable because email overnight arrives this morning and makes it sound like if I don't pay (already on auto-pay but could they note that ?) they will cancel my whole life.
By the end of the day the auto-pay should have posted. Fingers crossed.
Bela seems mostly over her bout with the cold. We talked with Roy yesterday, he called on his new number. Jonah there but do not know his number. They seem fine. He sounds like himself but barely recalls just who he is talking with, agrees to vague idea of getting together.
Is that how Burgo will sound if I call him? Fingers crossed.
Good news---Dennis got the go ahead and expects to move Feb 20. Fingers crossed.
Other good news the media play bad bunny's superbowl show is getting as the best resistence to the regime we've seen yet at that level of money and power. Fingers crossed.
After Handke: I grew up on the hills of shale along the banks of the Potomac River in MD. I've lived most of my life on the granite ledges along the Pemigewasset River in NH. I've retired to the volcanic lava beds and desert escarpment overlooking the Rio Grande in NM.
pp 72-73 in slow homecoming "in any countryside whatever characteristic forms reveal themselves . . .inconspicuous elements no scientific insight can lay bare on the next page the feeling of being at home
Pablo replies, can we do it Thursday, now 11:29 if/when we go to the store should I buy some sort of sinus pressure relief concoction or leave it to chance, aspirin here or there ?
Valentin Sorger after a concert in Berkeley, a large man, want to know who that might have been (Burl Ives? Johnny Cash? but point is not to know but to read Handke's words about it, about how the experience worked for Sorger at that moment.
here it is --- starts at the bottom of page 45 "The man who rose from the ground was not ecstatic, only appeased. He no longer expected illuminations, only measure and duration." This is right after his "first intimation of the river landscape. "My face is an unfinished sketch---when will it be complete?"
"(And then there was even a kind of hope---disguised as a feeling that he knew something.)" 46
Knowing (T mode?) disguised as a feeling (F mode).
The art works in the museum, the two big exhibits, disappointed after they wowed. Such scale, determination, money, polish, savy market/audience-wise, right in the bullseyes of the zeitgeist targets, identity vengeance.
The singer "He didn't sing with feeling but searched frantically for a feeling which was as puzzling to him as to anyone else." 82
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