See You in a Few

 

Just a brief note. 

I'm heading up to the Path of Totality on Lake Erie. Be back sometime after the Total E. I'll finish up with 4AD when I get back. That gives everyone a few extra days if you've got any 4AD request. I'll try to sum things up then & then trudge onward.

For now, I'll leave you with this, from Sailor Song by Ken Kesey...
     "Greer was right about the weird silence. The gulls were silent. The wind. It's like the silence that preceded an eclipse of the sun. He and Jeannie drove to Mexico to watch the last total eclipse of the twentieth century...everybody pulled over to the side of the road, drinking and jiving, watching the sun across the sagebrush being eaten away like a big cookie...Then just before it goes total a thing happens. It's called the Ripple Effect. Sheets of grey light suddenly come fluttering across the ground toward you, like butterfly wings going a thousand miles an hour. Waves of cold grey flame. Even when you have prepared yourself by reading about the Ripple Effect, and halfway understand that it's caused by Einstein's bending of the sun's rays around the moon so they synch up on the earth with other yet unbent rays - Gravity's Rainbow - you still are not prepared for the Effect's impact. Nobody is prepared. No thing. For miles around every entity sucks in its breath and goes dead quiet. Singers, drinkers, birds, donkeys, dogs; the cells in the flesh and probably the charged particles in the cells. Dead quiet. An awe beyond theories and explanations."

I want to experience that...

See you on the darkside of the sun,
NØ