Thursday, April 9, 2009 - Albuquerque NM
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Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM, March 26, 2009
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Albuquerque NM
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #835, 400 Eubank Blvd Ne, Albuquerque, NM 87123 - (505) 293-8878
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Very good
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood