hebdo.wanderlust-are you game?
…i keep asking mself… found a fancy restaurant specializing in undomesticated animal meat(tho these days,
it seems they mostly raise formerly wild animals, too- rather than actually hunt them. is this better or worse,
i ask myself?)
* name of ‘café viena’. it had some fancy pastries including sacher torte, too, but no linzer torte…well,
couldn’t find it in salzburg, what was i to expect…seems as if outside of linz, th mythical dessert is to be
found only in a couple places in nyc… spent th last two days struggling w/ archaically slow, bottlenecked
servers @ universidad complutense- have bn commuting into town via la universidad every morning w/ my cousin
miguel sobrino blanco from th madrid bedroom community suburb of alcobendas. he’s something of a semiotician,
teaching communication theory & seeking to develop methodology for more correctly reading & analysing
advertising practices scarcely recognised as such- such as point-of-sale product blurbs, store window
displays…also, th burgeoning internet, of course… so i’m back to watching th clock as i write, after
looking over my ‘camino d santiago’ route guide last night in an attempt to check my memory for detail & start
organising some kind of narrative about those most intnse six days… this is th beginning of th road back. it
was a difficult decision, fueled by possibly untrue hearsay, but i’ve ended up not going to galicia, not
visiting la guardia, not checking on th old family house @ all…th rumor was that my uncles may have already
found a buyer & th house is gone, gone, gone…it felt difficult to show up in town after that, uncomfortable
to look for a place to stay & go over th same ol’ plans & illusions i’ve bn talking up for th last four, five
years in response from th same ol’ questions on th part of relatives & acquaintances of every stripe…i’m
especially sorry not to have a chance to see & talk to josé fandiño, who runs th only gym in th village & has
bn unstintingly generous in welcoming me to its facilities whenever i’ve bn in town…or w/ leo álvarez sousa,
who has gone from trekking, oasis to oasis, in his land rover down to senegal or east into algeria, to
travelling as a caritas volunteer to kosovo & is now in th process of producing a cd-rom w/ some o his
photographs & other documents to help w/ fund-raising efforts…or w/ my cousin dr. kiko sobrino, who three
years ago told me he had taken a risk w/ some of his savings to help produce a friend’s film…! i’ll have to
make do w/ a couple of phone calls from now, & hope my plans for next year work out…as it is, i’m on th way
back to barcelona, to paris or pisa on th way to weimar, to wolfenbuttel &/or hamburg on th way to amsterdam, &
nyc on th way to puerto rico…it sure is th long way home form where i’m trying to catch my breath right
now…
love to all,
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