(Continued from 6:08 AM EDT yesterday and the day before)
"Richard Elster was seventy-three, I was less than half his age. He’d invited me to join him here, old house, under-furnished, somewhere south of nowhere in the Sonoran Desert or maybe it was the Mojave Desert or another desert altogether.* Not a long visit, he’d said."
— Don DeLillo, Point Omega
Maybe it was the desert near Twentynine Palms.
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— Ending of Point Omega
* Update of Sept. 2, 2012— A different passage yields a more precise location.