Where In The World Are You? November/December 2018

I am in Zimbabwe at a viewing of This Mournable Body.

I am in Madrid watching a mob killing with Melmoth the Wanderer.

In Oakland, trying to find out if there is still a There There.

I'm in Montreal, being infected with Toxoplasma.

I’ve been renting A Small Place in Antigua from Jamaica Kincaid.

Gary Lachman, a real favorite of mine, takes me
to 18th century Sweden, England, and elsewhere in Europe.
in his Swedenborg: an Introduction to his Life and Ideas

I'm suffering from Cosmofobia in Lavapiés, a Madrid neighbourhood.

Missing Romania while I'm being detained on the Russian Steppe by the Hunger Angel.

I'm in Gaston county, North Carolina, with the mill workers in The last ballad: a novel by Wiley Cash.

I've been in Southampton, NY, trying to protect The Last Refuge, and now I am off to Vienna where I hope to meet The Winter Soldier, an elusive character.

I am in Madrid while Imalee is being corrupted by Melmoth the Wanderer.

Additionally, I am going back to West Africa as I find that I crave a Return to Laughter.

>11 pgmcc: I left Madrid yesterday! And am now playing a Pastorale transsibérienne in... wait for it! Siberia.

I am in the snow in Austria during WWI, stalking The Winter Soldier.

Now off to Three Pines in Canada where I intend to reside in The Kingdom of The Blind.

Briefly in Florida, then in Toronto with
"Amanda" who hates the nickname "Puppet"* that
seems to stick to her. She finds that her estranged mother has killed a "complete stranger" (?) in broad daylight in a hotel lounge.

**by Joy Fielding

I am visiting New York City briefly to take in Patti Smith at The Minetta Lane.

Now off to Nigeria, where I will be spending time with My Sister The Serial Killer.

Now off to China where I hope to complete Half A Lifelong Romance.

After a wild time in Nigeria, I am headed back to the USA, Richmond Virginia to be specific, hoping for an encounter with Varina.

I'm in contemporary London, hoping to find love and Happiness (apologies to Al Green).

In posr-Communist Albania} with an Alabanian and cosmopolita cast for the story of
an enigmatic "Accident"*.

*by the great Ismail Kadare

>22 rolandperkins: I love Ismail Kadare! Are you reading The Accident or Kadare's biography? Your touchstone links to Een masker voor de macht : over Ismail Kadare...

I am being sung to sleep by The Perfect Nanny.

". . .I love Ismail Kadare!
(22-23).

Good taste prevails! The one Iʻm reading now is The Accident. I know little of his
biography or his politics.

I am in the company of a man whose exuding sores stink (whether really or metaphorically I don't yet know), one who has a hair fetish stemming from childhood games played in the remains of Nazi death camps and who is obsessed with women, whom he doesn't know how to talk to, in the GDR. Evidence of Moms' basements in East Germany, I suppose. The Females

Climbing in the Dolomites in Northern Italy. I was there in April and revisiting by reading this book. Book was by Leone Sinigaglis and published in 1896.