Johannes, I'm glad you mentioned the Texas experience because I've seen nothing else like it. I think the cities are around 400 miles apart, and the rest is unbelievably emptied. But then I remember reading Baudrillard on the emptiness of America and finding myself angry, since he assumed that the desert is blank or void, ignoring the fact it's been home to Native Americans and wildlife, that it was cultural, responds culturally, just as much as 'comforting' cities might. It reminds me also of Herzog's notion of the jungle which was also home and inhabited and cultural / political, not a brutal or 'seething' nature. My words. Texas is disruptive too because of the nature of the cities - I remember Marlis Schmidt who was from Midland, an odd oil city rising out of nothing, descending into nothing. I wonder if the Sahara is like that.
I did read Sandy's essay in Chatzichristodoulou's book which I could never afford, but Sandy sent me a copy, and Yes! So I just wrote John Cayley about seeing him in Providence and the news came on about another John Cayley who just got charged for reckless truck driving which killed a police officer. Strange. Anyway. If I barely replied, I probably did so under a stress medication - I've been trying to go to sleep around midnight because of our current stress of things, and Azure has to get up at 6:15 to get to work as a part-time teaching assistant (there's a hiring freeze for full-tine teachers here). So at 4:15 I may not have been all there, I probably woke out of a nightmare (today's was about the Vietnam War). - Alan, apologies _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
