LATE ADDITION: crackling baguette crust

- first 3 seconds of The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" - 3 seconds of me, age 6, singing "Band On The Run" - jet fighter flyover - robins at dawn - room tone of Emens Auditorium, Muncie, IN, as the orchestra settles before Beethoven's 7th, fourth movement

I know it's trite to call @greatdismal.bsky.social a visionary, but the scene in Virtual Light where Chevette spends the afternoon wrapping her brand new bicycle in frayed duct tape and rust-colored spray paint as a guard against theft has always stuck with me.

after all the years and gave it to Prairie, as if she were supposed to be the one to have it all along." -Thomas Pynchon 2/2