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PG was listening to Ricard Brautigan read. He wanted to hear more. Mr. Google showed him more files, but a download was needed to run them. PG is nervous about loading new stuff on his machine, but the thought of hearing Mr. Brautigan count the punctuation marks in Ecclesiastes was too good to pass over.
Mr. Brautigan…hereafter called RB…doesn’t sound like you think he would. A tall man, with a walrus mustache, his voice is kinda nasal, and a bit high pitched. Maybe, if he sang, he would be a tenor.
Back to the download. It was an apple player, and it would play some music files that would not work on the windows music box. However, it would not work on the RB files. At least not in firefox, but in internet explorer it works fine. Maybe the apple download was not needed.
The first story is “The Hunchback Trout”, which was in “Trout Fishing In America” . PG seems to remember this as the part that caught his interest, when he read  TFIA 27 years ago. Meanwhile, the pictures from the past of Georgia were flopping across the screen, to be sized and contrast adjusted, for internet consumption.
The visual counterfuzz was from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” , a section called corporate bodies. The last box to be worked on was number 22, means that the thrills tonight come from box 23 , Central to Charles. The Central part was the Central of Georgia railroad, and had a shot of Mayor Hartsfield, wearing a double breasted coat, in a lounge car. The mayor is talking on the phone, and not smiling for the camera. This is out of character for him.
On the RB sound page, a group of people read a poem, called “Love Poem”. Its so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don’t love them anymore. One man is yawning, another tries to be ironic, a radio station announces itself, two voices read in harmony…you get the idea.
These 26 words ground themselves into PG’s brain, despite the experience he had with email. Someone wanted PG to send out an email message. The correct response is to send this person the list of email addresses. The only trouble was a quirk in open office. If you try to copy a list of addresses, off an open office spreadsheet, into email, then chaos will ensue. The only answer is to close all the affected programs, copy the addresses into wordpad, and then copy the addresses into the email. Tonight is a night of quirky technology, while listening to an alcoholic writer who died in 1984.
When writing about books, it is a cool thing to supply a link to the book on amazon . You need to be careful what field you type in when you are searching. PG entered B, before he shifted over to the proper field. The search engine got the wrong idea from this. “Your search “brautigan” did not match any products in: Baby Products”. Picky, picky, picky.
The next thing by RB is the reason PG wanted to hear this stuff bad enough to download apple software ( when what he really needed to do was switch browsers). The story is ” The Rivets of Ecclesiastes”. It is about a man who reads the Bible by lantern light, and counts the punctuation marks in Ecclesiastes. The first chapter of the E book has 22 commas, 8 semicolons,8 colons, 2 question marks, and 17 periods. It is said that the Bible gains something when read by lantern light, that the book has never adjusted to electricity. ( Later this evening, PG finds a picture from 1954. It is of a construction site. A sign says “Quiet Please. Listen to the Riveters Symphony”.)
Moving along, the spoken word gives us a series of poems from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. These poems are in the video embedded here, and were responsible for this adventure. Whether this is credit or blame is a matter for the individual to decide.