You’re living in your own Private Idaho
Underground like a wild potato
Don’t go on the patio
Beware of the pool, blue bottomless pool
It leads you straight right throught the gate that opens on the pool
You’re living in your own Private Idaho
Keep off the path, beware of the gate
Watch out for signs that say “hidden driveways”
Don’t let the chlorine in your eyes blind you to the awful surprise
That’s waitin’ for you at the bottom of the bottomless blue pool
You’re out of control, the rivers that roll
You fell into the water and down to Idaho
Get out of that state
Get out of that state you’re in
You better beware
All of the first half of Gray Rock was fun to write, but assembling and connecting the middle chapters thereof (11, 12, and 13) gave me a great deal of difficulty. Little if any of the material resided in the first half of Gray Rock in the early drafts. Most of the material was originally in Destination Unknown, and a decent portion was in Across This Antheap (Part Three).
Private Idaho switches to the other side to describe others in the office who weren’t on my or Phinizy’s team, and a bit of detail on what our jobs entailed. Most of this chapter was originally in Across This Antheap, but I decided to move it here to set up the ‘long game’ conflict of the entire story.
In retrospect, I could have placed more emphasis on Gray Rock’s ‘catalyst’ moment, which occurs in Private Idaho: the MP isn’t going anywhere, only growing in power and influence, and will never support, only undermine, my work.
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