Sierra de Gredos

this arrived and I realized it was published years before The Fruit Thief so I dropped that (few pages in)

and picked up this.  Unusual in many ways, hmm, what was he thinking that prompted this one?  Main character a woman, a banker, to boot!  What's up?  But still, a wanderer.  Character and her author, a hired biographer.  Story, no myth.  

"I have always hoped for a commission like this: not a work but a product to deliver.  An order.'  A man of rhythms?  What kind of rhythms? "Above all the rhythms of understanding, that most inclusive of feelings, hand in hand with the rhythm of remaining silent, and leaving things unspoken."  9  

this copy very heavy, an ingram printing product, maybe ten years old?  very heavy paper, unlike those other recent copies printed in texas two weeks ago.   

ok this will be a wild wandering like the Walked Out One Night.  Banker, woman, instead of a pharmacist, and she will realize and transform in various ways.  No names, no specific landscape, but landscape as dreamscape.  

for going to texas I'll take the small book, two novellas, tale of demons and merry month of may unusual in that they are novellas with titles and sub-titles

stroll around Netherwood the other day interesting, depressing.  The refined famous house degraded right and left by junky houses built next to it and by the whole neighborhood.  Lechusas now has the look and feel of a village.  almost   even more pleased with and proud of the whole west side