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March 21, 2006
One summer day in
'73 or '74, Which is to
one of my older say that I
brothers had a was 13 or 14.
troupe of friends
staying the night,
in preparation of
an experiment Their approach was very
in making electronic basic: electronic feedback
music the next day. circuits using consumer
stereo equipment, a few
guitar effects peddles,
So they moved me and a hell of a lot of
up to the couch cables.
in the living room,
where I spent the
night.
The next day, while I was
very curious about what they
were doing down in the
basement, I kept putting off
going down to see, because I Not only was I a
really wanted to finish compulsive reader
reading the "Deep Blue in those days,
Good-By"... which I did, I felt no compunction
while occasional blips and about being polite
howls of sound emerged about it.
from the depths.
I remember being
taken out to a
The funny part about diner, and just
this experience taking out a book
though is the and reading in
comments from this lulls in the
one twentyish woman conversation.
that was hanging
around with them...
She was really disgusted
by my behavior: reading
some silly adventure
novel when I could be On a different occasion
admiring the cable work I remember opining:
of the big-boys
downstairs. "People put too much
faith in their personal
On the few occasions experience."
that I remember her
being around, I would And she responded,
get nothing but bitter, contemptuously: "What
jeering remarks from *else* is there?!"
this woman. If she was
capable of anything else To which I mumbled
I certainly never saw it. something weak like
"impersonal experience"
In retrospect, I think and let it drop.
she was a classic example
of a kind of pseudo-
intellectual that the It's entirely possibly
"sixties counter-culture" that my 13-year old
helped to produce: self was too shy
to argue with this
A herd-following hipster babe, but
non-conformist, nearly as I remember it
brainless, but trying I was just embarrassed
hard to bluff and pass that she didn't
for heavy. see the point,
And I suspected
that she wasn't
capable of getting
the point:
Crime-statistics are
more significant than
whether you happen to
know someone who has
been robbed.
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