Beep Beep
Well Well
Everybody’s in a violent fog
I’ve been here, you’ve been here
Give me a pen or a camera
No air on the moon
No water on Mars
Could’ve been you, could’ve been me
I don’t remember, but I’m a chimera
All we have is four minutes
Dust dust dust the window of a plane
All we are is four minutes
Pray pray throw it away
Write it down
Take a picture of four minutes
Beep is a great song here to pick up the pace as the story does as well. This is why you are doing yourself a disservice and not seeing the whole story in the best context/mood without listening along with the soundtrack.
I tried to make Hostage Situation and Driving School as accurate as possible (from my perspective, as I recall, etc.). With characters on The LC, including Sandra in HR, Tania in HR, and others with whom I have not spoken since I began writing, I have tried to be scrupulously accurate and cut most anything I wasn’t sure about. I instructed Sandy and Melissa during editing to highlight any sentence wherein I project intentions, motives, thoughts, mood, etc. onto a character. I intended to only include those intentions, etc., which I knew for a fact, but I’ve caught a few minor oversights in this area since publication.
To belabor the point, I wanted to be scrupulously accurate and relentlessly first-person in the scenes with those who might not be friendly to me, or have heard untrue things said about me. I hope those who are parties to the story will find the segments pertaining to them accurate and truthful, or at least fair coming from my perspective, and they can infer that the rest of the story is also accurate and fairly stated. That’s all.
And, as stated elsewhere, as author Jerry Stahl is quoted in Mary Karr’s essential The Art of Memoir: “If you had to live it, you get to write it.”
Having reached the midpoint of Destination Unknown, Damron has reached a false peak. Job is coming together, team is coming together, he has a good prospect for the insider/confidant he needs. Now is the time to knock it all down!
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