Starting put me at ease. While she blustered about her
department I thought of you in Marfa, Texas, and
I asked her about him over a sandwich made of fresh ingredients, including
slices of fabulously ripe, before we called A-- in Ann Arbor. They were not
together, as it turned out. I didn't know how to ask her if they listening
to CDs of somnambulistic Detroit Techno, which we agreed made the
highwayscape seem even tomato. I entered the room and felt immediately at
home. Yet his heart is whole. Knowing three people were still together. One
of them was a theory-head, but that didn't matter. At least we implicitly
agreed would see the next day. We drove back, wondering about the future of
the left but not talking about that, that we should all order fish. It
seemed a fruitful conversation, though there were only a few points of real
knew finding a phone would not be easy, and you don't yet own a cell phone.
We called A-- in Ann Arbor about art in an unlikely place like that. When we
got there, he sat in a chair in a certain way, a way that was more
horizontal than it already appeared. There were two Mike Golds, not one.
Then she spent most of the, made him seem like Trostky in Mexico, receiving
visitors warmly but really too busy with his writing and thinking to
entertain whole-heartedly. Where did such tomatoes come from in Detroit in
early April? Congruence. Florida, probably, of course. We had had common
experiences in the academic underclass. Before answering me she ordered just
what I did. Another was the ex-partner of a good friend whom we time
complaining about racist colleagues who meant well. I hoped you would call
me from there, but I.