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after listening to the new kate bush album nearly every day, sometimes twice a day for two weeks now, i've finally determined the climax. it's the bit at about 8min into nocturn, when she says
LOOK AT THE LIGHT
ALL THE TIME IT'S A CHANGING
LOOK AT THE LIGHT
CLIMBING UP THE AERIAL

i've also been listening to a lot of solo guitar pieces. bruce cockburn, michael hedges, pat metheny, and tony rice. i think i will ask my father for advice on some pierre bensusan albums soon. the michael hedges song bensusan is incredible. listen: bensusan. i'm finally getting into jane siberry's the walking too, after three years.

there are 100 senators in the united states. just 100. i cannot imagine the compromises that those 100 senators have had to make just tobecome and remain senators.

andrea, my professor is into post-modern history, but most of the class isn't, it seems. today's lecture was about myths, and the undoubtable fact that myths are their own truth! what is true and what is myth becomes intertwined, because myth informs reality! and reality informs myth! it is a constant dialogue. when i tell history, i am reading my own time into it. i am glad that i am still getting so much enjoyment out of history. we got a great story about kit carson today. also, the creation of indian identity by eastern photograhers who wanted to document the 'real indian' before they all died... they would only photograph those indians that looked indian enough for them. oh, the layers! i really can't wait to see the cultural theorists tear into da vinci's inquest/da vinci's city hall one day!