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Back from the USA

We’re back, got the first flight out of San Francisco at lunchtime on Wednesday… now trying to clear backlog of post, phone calls, missed deadlines. I have to give a talk tomorrow at the Univ. of Surrey.

best,

Iain

Iain Sinclair stranded in San Francisco

Ben,

still nothing resolved. We may get a flight tomorrow, but United seems to be at the bottom of the food chain. And every piece of advice is contradictory: ‘you could go to Washington, then Zurich’… ‘Aberdeen is open’… ‘Try Madrid’… ‘Madrid is at capacity’… ‘No boats’… ‘Stay where you are, it’s better than Chicago, better [...]

More news from a stranded Iain

Ben -

we’re ok; booked back into our Holiday Inn, which is presently occupied by a hard-core, jar-head lesbian convention. The Xtian fundamentalists, who greeted the world so loudly, have moved on. The sun shines on panhandlers and courteous street people with shopping trolleys filled with city salvage. We’ll do some more walks and trawl for [...]

Volcano

Ben – after an interesting time in Austin, feeling posthumous looking at old manuscripts, dirt from Stratford labouring days falling out of ancient notebooks, delivering talks, and leading an expedition up the Texas University Tower (memories of the 60ies sniper), we took ourselves to San Francisco. Where, thanks to the Icelandic volcano, we remain – with [...]