On 30 May I traveled to Vancouver and went to a group of wood lodges somewhere down in the Canadian Rockies. To endorse my 10-day retreat, I flew back through San Francisco to talk with beat artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, organizer of City Lights book shop. Life appeared to be acceptable when I returned to Paris, and the next day a telecom engineer snared my hotly anticipated ADSL line. Presently I could peruse the web at rapid the entire day. No more glitchy dial-up modem and pay incrementally access. I had no clue about how significant this new innovation was going to demonstrate. On Saturday 16 June, I composed and recorded a piece on Dutch footballer Marco van Basten for GQ, then, at that point went out to meet companions at one more design party. The evening would take a surprising tur
