Part I . . . Notes, References, and Shoutouts (Chapters 6-10)
(BbU Supplement #2)
Chapter 6. Let Down, Hanging Around
The chapter’s title was drawn from the Radiohead song, “Let Down,” off the album, OK Computer, 1997.
Chapter 7. The Non-victimization of Amy Templeton
Other people waiting for the flight pretended not to, but stared at me after this; even if they didn’t, I thought they did.
“. . .You get to the point where you feel it’s always happening, somebody’s always intruding or watching or whispering, even when nobody is . . .” John McEnroe quoted in “John McEnroe: Where Does He Go From Here?” by Peter Bodo, Tennis, July 1984, p. 38.
He dropped the ball and hit it on the rebound as hard as he could . . .
Players at the U.S. Open have been known to fire up balls at offending aircraft coming out of La Guardia.
Truly, one of my childhood favorites
. . . ever since Mom read One Morning in Maine to me as a child . .
One Morning in Maine, by Robert McCloskey. First published by The Viking Press, 1952.
FIP Feline infectious peritonitis is a progressive, deadly viral disease of cats caused by certain strains of a virus called the feline coronavirus.
“Space Shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost January 28, 1986, when the orbiter came apart 73 seconds after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.” NASA
. . . but now music was flooding the room—Brahms I guessed; I recognized it.
Amy guessed right; it was Brahms: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 83. She wakes up during the third movement (27:38 below).
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly . . .
From T.S. Eliot’s poem “Ash-Wednesday,” 1930, Lines 9-10, 35-40
Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour . . .
* * *
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
In The Waste Land and Other Poems, by T.S. Eliot. (Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1930, 1958 limited edition.)
This is a starter house.
A quote from the original Janet (former fellow occupant, Janyt W.)
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Always hungry, the driving force rapidly became volume over taste. You’ll eat anything if hungry enough . . .
Eating for volume as practiced by certain skint graduate students in the 1980s involved buying a (then 30 cent) single cheeseburger at McDonald’s, then loading up that sorry patty with ketchup, mustard, pickle relish, as well as onions (if available, and even if you hated onions) from the condiment station until a certain metric volume of slop was obtained.
Top image: One morning. Photograph by J. Weigley