Epigraph I
“The yellow sun being teased apart by a thousand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without shame. ... over it all the enormous gas ruin of the sun among the smokestacks ...brown growing deeper, approaching black through an instant— perhaps the true turn of the sunset—that is wine to you, wine and comfort.”
–Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Epigraph II:
“The edge of the earth trembled in a darkish haze. Upon it lay the sun, going down like a ship in a burning sea. Another postmodern sunset, rich in romantic imagery. Why try to describe it? It’s enough to say that everything in our field of vision seemed to exist in order to gather the light of this event.”
–Don DeLillo, White Noise
Aaron Zimmer, audio engineer.
Recorded live in Griswold Hall, Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD.