Day 69: [ ], Sturdivant, and Anne
Anne calls a sudden halt to reading Rebecca's journal. Today in Centenary, the serial novel unfolding in 100-word stories from Living Well Towers.
69: [ ], STURDIVANT, and ANNE
- No, don’t read it, Anne.
- Read it.
- “Pulses. Not Pulse.”
- No, don’t.
- “After all those years teaching “Tomorrow” and getting sacked over Chaka Khan, why did he obsess on Steve Reich, on ‘Music for 18 Musicians,’ on five minutes of relentless repeating, repeating, repeating? On ‘Pulses?’
- Stop!
- Read it.
- I have to stop. This isn’t what I was expecting, at all. She’s rambling about music. Nothing about this Steve Reich in Tower Two pushing Eli.
- No, you don’t get it? Steve Reich, the musician. She thinks Reich’s music, his music, his music pushed Eli to jump.
- Oh, that can’t be.
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