Thursday, May 14, 2026

peak of the Gredos

the bus driver faints and the woman adventurer takes over driving the bus down the southern slope of the mountain

such slow loving detail, Handke must have trekked this more than once himself 

"I have made my way through all these parts of the world where I was consistently filled with ecstatic feelings---no, not with illusory ecstasy but rather with a state of love, yes, of love, and of which I have only fond memories afterward. "  224 

Puerto del Pico  caught once in blinding wet snow   Escorial to the east, Plaza of Salamanca to the west

she laughs and says to her listener and her author, "I am the one you commissioned."  "The idiot at the wheel, laughed and did not stop laughing . . . " 229


Pablo was here for a piano session.  He lives with his blind teen aged son and his twenty-five year old daughter.  He flies to Mexico tomorrow for a week to see his 92 year old mother, Mercedes.  His first university classes were in a small arts school attached to the museum of anthropology and that neighborhood was his initial university campus.  Later he got injected in the butt with Marxism by the Jesuits at the large university.  Maybe not the Jesuits, they are in the story somehow but exactly where we are not sure.  He will be back on the 28th.  


 

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