January 12 - The Arrival of Tiamat


Megan acquires her new car from Gigi, with help from Harriet and moi re logistics.


My part is driving the contemplatorily appelated Tia


(her 


tinted windows working early-evening surreality to the photography)


back


across the


distance to


Megan's


place


and


being


chauffered back,


on the 12th day of spring,


high back up 8 to 62


(second highest of month, after 2 day's ago's 64),



editing page 26 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, finishing

The Decameron, Op. 289
     100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
          Tenth Day / Novel VI - King Charles the Old falls in love with two young maidens

(6 pages total) and continuing to compose

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290
     IVb2. Danse Banane Sauvage (Freud)

-- system 7...



Some of above while watching the Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) documentary Once on a Border (1992),  by Tony Palmer (b. 1941), in which Robert Craft (1923-2015) relates tales of Stravinsky's life at


1260 North Weatherly Drive, Los Angeles --


which evidently is on the market


now (an asking price no doubt spectacularly more than in the expatriate Russian's time)...


This, his home from 1940-1969, before moving inexplicably to Essex House in New York (adjacent to Hampshire House to the left, southeast of the notorious Dakota), with its northerly views of Central Park -- somehow recalling living in Hallowell Hall as a sophomore at Swarthmore College: a beautiful view almost due north into Crum Woods, but hardly any direct sunshine...