“Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams.”
— The end of DeLillo’s Point Omega
Monday, August 10, 2020
Spirit Birds…
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Monday, September 23, 2024
Point Alpha — “What’s Your Rush, Miss Minutes?”
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
Meanwhile on that YouTube date . . .
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Friday, February 27, 2015
Stranger than Dreams
For a former president of Notre Dame
who reportedly died at 11:30 PM last night —
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Song for a Night Bird
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
College of the Desert
(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.
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