Eighty percent of my work has been done. Under a
butternut tree, Ralph Vaughan Williams is playing. I
am a plumb bar swaying, yielding to inclination
of the wind. Free to rotate, out on a limb, in a
hammock shaped like a sideways "J" and hung from
a single cord, I lean toward autobiography...
When the wind decides, it blows through the theme
by Thomas Tallis at the base of the tree and changes
the stereo on me.
Montserrat, British West Indies
August 1985