ephemera

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La Gioconda at the opera house.  Upper balcony side, about as far from the plane of the plaster line as the conductor was.  ($5.67 via half-price site.)  Consciously summoning up memories of the visit and performance here as an undergraduate.  After that visit, the theatre of this city stood for a certain thing in my mind for a very long time, and I tried, with modest success, to inhabit that idyll.  I suppose you can't go unheimlich again.  But a very powerful evening.

 Oddly, as I stood up at the end, I realized that what had seemed to be a robust zipper on the jeans had somehow given out completely.  Luckily, simply buttoning the coat solved the problem.  Always wear a coat of decent length.  

Interesting that it's on the feast of Barnabas ('Barnaba' is the Inquisition spy.)  Possibly a noticed holiday in these parts--traditionally the midsummer day in old style dating.