Status Updates From Unterwelt

I see how some people describe parts of the vignettes section as slow. I like the woman running home from her hospital shift, and J Edgar Hoover at the ball (and seeing Klara make a small appearance as a “middling painter”).

She began to understand that this was Vietnam Week on campuses across the country.
And this was Dow Day here in Madison, a protest against Dow Chemical…whose products included a new and improved form of napalm with a polystyrene additive that made jellied matter cling more firmly to human flesh…Common Sense, Uncommon Chemistry. This was Dow's catchy ad slogan…

sonic boom(er)

Albert cuts eddies hair. Albert school teacher, was with Klara and now Laura (jewish), thinking about funerals and aging. Space funeral of ashes mentioned

matt visits childhood area and talks with Albert from chess. Texas highway killer calls. Mom to AZ

Rat story

Marvin trying to sell ball to Phoenix buyer and has cancer. Matt and Nicky talk about waste business and younger Jimmy in trouble over gambling

Marvin traces ball to Genevieve Rauch, whose ex husband was the guy shot on video. Bryan Glassic heads to landfill. Marvin skeptical of Gorbachev and birthmark - fear of life with a changing order?

Brian talks with Marvin about baseball, Thompson HR on Branca and the Soviet a-bomb on the same day. They don’t believe the Cold War will end

Cotter shows dad Manx Martin the ball, who takes it to sell. 1980s: Young girl records killing of father by Texas Highway Killer and Brian meets with Marian Shay, reminiscing about life and brothers Bel Air