the coriolis effect

Boston again, for blockmates and others and lots of Chesnekov. Not Germany but then Germany doesn't have fresh- made banitsa. Or Charlie's Kitchen.

Or Widener, though I'm still too sheepish to go inside. Instead, sat on the Mem Church steps listening to music.

And fondly remembered CompLit: "Here I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound benificence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation, and I realized that the joy I sought in you was not only secreted within you, but breathed around me everywhere, in the speeding street sounds, in the hem of a comically lifted skirt, in the metallic yet tender drone of the wind, in the autumn clouds bloated with rain. I realized that the world does not represent a struggle at all, or a precarious sequence of chance events, but shimmering bliss, benificent trepidation, a gift bestowed on us and unappreciated." - Nabokov