Nice to talk yesterday. How are you?
Greetings from the Middletown
library, where I'm hoping to meet Heartsong around now, and talk with him
further about the fire and Harbin - and possibly about the blurb I think he's writing
for the back of my Harbin book ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html.
What's different visually about Middletown upon
initially driving into the library after the major fire last September 12 & 13 that burnt down Harbin and a major part of this town seems very little. Only when I walked up to the
library itself did I see ridges in the distance in the direction of Harbin
which were burnt. I thought I would see more effects of the fire from the
beginning.
The vineyards in Napa are
golden especially near the north end. There's a solid California bridge over a
culvert nearing completion too on the Middletown side of the long hill down
from Mt St. Helena, where RL Stevenson spent some months around 1879 with Fanny
Osborne around their honeymoon.
Heartsong said we could meet at 3, but this is
Lake County time ... and so I'm hoping he'll arrive eventually.
Fondly,
Scott
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Hi D, R, C, and J,
Some ideas I want to explore further perhaps in the concluding chapters ...
culture of real virtuality (Castells) re the virtual
Some ideas I want to explore further perhaps in the concluding chapters ...
wu wei (non action in a Taoist sense ... "in order to" ... as you suggested logically at Meeting a few weeks ago, David)
serendipity
How
would actual simulacras (physical replicas) be possibly comparable here
re my book e.g. Lascaux, Lascaux simulacra and Lascaux online? What
kinds of studies might emerge in a three way comparison by say graduate
students? (Thanks, Larry MIchalak - another UC Berkeley professor
affiliated with Tourism Studies)
Making progress here. Sprinkling some photos through later chapters (3/chapter) is still something I'd like to do (and then organizing the Figures in the beginning of the book), then tying together the page by page references with the now somewhat complete "Works Cited" and after pagination has begun to settle down further, finishing up the index, particularly in chapers 6-9 are ahead.
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