Picked up Vollman's latest and last work -- and it begins on the familiar streets Centar Municipality, Sarajevo. Brilliant. So at least one thing of the mind has some go to it at present.
Would vanish to Bosnia, Serbia, or points east in a heartbeat, if I thought I had sufficient means for the journey. Present living situation and work is at best useful, and (perhaps simultaneously) at worst, more than a bit risky, In the language of computer games (which I notoriously don't play), I'm picking up the points to be found in the scene (making the annotations on works at NYPL I'd likely not find elsewhere for things I hope to write), but as to the larger game, I don't think things are going that well, frankly.
PS, still wondering at how V placed a piece in L'Osservatore Romano. Must have an old-school-capable agent.