3991 Back into Vespuccia. (8th time)
3992 What is more congruous with gasoline, light automotive service or junk >>>>>food?
3993 What makes more economical sense: every gasoline-pump with one to five >>>>>vehicles always in line, or twelve pumps with seldom more than two or >>>>>three vehicles for them all, and often, none?
3993 Problems, again problems; from minor to major ones.
3995 Industrial astuteness astride the border.
3995 For the love of the Comanches.
3996 Detecting and extracting petroleum (this, a wrong denomination).
4001 A spelean treasure-chest.
4001 Marvel of shy drizzle after five months of drought.
4002 Dinosaurian and human-type footprints in the same geological stratum.
4004 Even a human footprint within a dinosaurian footprint.
4004 That fear of being victim of the national sport of suing with the most >>>>>preposterous pretext.
4005 What is that nonsense of reptiles that fly, swim, walk but do not >>>>>"rept" (crawl), anyway?
4005 Copper tubing to order.
4006 Keeping far from Dallas/Fort Worth and shuddering at the radio traffic >>>>>reports.
4007 German battery bought in Iquique must be replaced after valiant service.
4007 Modern calves as forlorn as many modern children.
4007 Government-sponsored land-stealing race.
4007 Eloquent toponyms: Broken Bow, etc.
4008 More fodder for controversy: runes in the heart of the continent.
4012 What is better, computerized driving or creative driving?
4013 What is the meaning of "Snake Cave" or "Turtle Cave"?
4013 Yesterday's medical dogma, today's medical ridicule.
4014 No decent place, so far, to have our 4,200 photographs processed.
4015 Now is the time to solve that major administrative problem.
4015 One of the tires that took us through the Amazon Basin gave up its steel >>>>>soul.
4015 Analyzing the logistics of including in the Expedition the temporal-
>>>>>geographical slice of Europe pertinent to the discoveries of America.
4016 How constricting, mean, unwise, Europe seems to be.
4016 Also, we saw the written proof that Denmark is not in Europe.
4017 Discovering the abyss of electronic fake literacy.
4018 Shoolchildren (ages: 13 to 17) go to school, armed (calibres: 22 to 32).
4018 Sunny side of the hundreds of murders in New York and Washington;
>>>>>(according to the radio).
4020 In New York, impossible not to become cosmopolitan and ecumenical.
4020 For personal attention, a hyper-developed society is not the place.
4021 In Lima, only caution; in New York, also fear.
4022 An undeveloped road, forgivable; a freeway, unforgivable.
4024 Fort Ancient, archaeological site.
4026 Obviously, inertia or lack of means is no exclusivity of any country.
4026 Serpent Mound, archaeological site.
4029 Fort Hill, archaeological site.
4030 Seip Mound, archaeological site.
4030 Mound City, archaeological site.
4032 Now, the mass-murdering of unknown, innocent victims became air-borne.
4032 How much wheat in Vespuccian bread?
4032 Why so much earth-moving, yet nothing but earth-moving?
4033 Strange idea: human skull fitted with lupine upper maxilla.
4034 Eagle Mound, archaeological site.
4037 Global organic meaning of all those sites.
4043 Reassessing things, downwards.
4045 Chinaware factory.
4048 "Friendliness": forbidden to leave car parked on public street by night.
4050 Again, police thrown at us in broad daylight, by someone anonymous >>>>>somewhere kilometers and kilometers away.
4051 Breeding of decorative fishes.
4055 We must - must - take the time to become temporarily sedentary and bring >>>>>many things under control, no matter how long it will take.
4057 27th of October, first day of eighth year of the Expedition.
4057 Processing of photographs by the thousands; done, not without many >>>>>problems.
4057 Discovering, in some of the photographs, phantasmal apparitions, optical >>>>>illusions, double engravings that we did not know were there when we took >>>>>the photographs.
4057 Facing some photographs that we do not know how to look at.
4059 Fleeing from a hurricane of the strongest category.
4059 Life of a powerful hurricane.
4060 A great Vespuccian project: to eradicate illiteracy by the year 2000.
4061 Free market, great - while it does not hurt you.
4061 Beaches, interdicted by garbage including hypodermic needles.
4061 Crucifix in urine, as museum piece.
4061 Children (6 to 11) pretending to sell and buy marijuana (hashed grass) >>>>>and cocaine (sugar).
4062 Thus say the experts:
97/oo of Vespuccian banknotes, contaminated with cocaine.
4062 The iilustrative slips in pronunciation from Andean to Indian and from >>>>>Hungary to hungry (by professional radio speakers).
4062 Discrimination by orchestra, in favor of orchestre, against orquesta.
4063 Worse than gasoline in tanks tainted with diesel fuel, comestible liquids >>>>>in tanks tainted with chemical liquids.
4063 Liberating power of high technology, a fallacy.
4064 Literacy, matter of survival for ... publishers.
4064 Marijuana grown with narcotic power several times higher than average >>>>>international.
4065 Incredibly swift response to a non-threatening emergency.
4065 Incredibly idiotic cleaning lunacy.
4066 So many small towns, so unfriendly as not to allow the slightest public >>>>>parking space for strangers.
4066 The cult of Mown Lawns; possible deep-seated explanations.
4068 Arsenic and death, to make building cheaper.
4069 Nineteen insights into the world of photograpy.
4073 The scientific confraternity says that 1,000 is "infra" 730; we say that >>>>>it is "supra".
4075 Analyzing the whole Expedition so far, through all the photographs from >>>>>the beginning.
4076/4091 An anthology of Vespuccian inconceptuality and of ineptitudes in the >>>>>English language, sinking each other into mental disintegration.
4091 No hurry to get to Washington: 370 murders in 10 months; some 100 rapes >>>>>(plus the unreported ones) in 2 months.
4092 Analyzing the whole Ecpedition so far, through all the chronicles since >>>>>the beginning; tremendous job, done.
4093 The many differences between frost and glaze.
4096 Part of a school day: firearms, drug addiction, sex.
4097 Living strictly by the Sun.
4098 Real justice, not worth the effort.
4098 Every narcotic sold must carry ... an excise-tax stamp.
4099 A society arithmetically divided into an elite and the masses.
4099 North American facets. (Already noted, page 3291.)
4100 Three last countries on Earth not to have learned the metric system: >>>>>Vespuccia, Burma, Liberia.
4100 Forcing customers to buy what they do not need.
4100 Advertising demagogy.
4102 New summit of Vespuccian, treacherous, cowardly, anonymous throwing the >>>>>police (three cruisers) at us, in public place (library).
4103 Miserable, pitiable people as no other.
4118 Reconditioning the mechanics of the vehicle; done.
4118 Reconditioning the body of the vehicle; done.
4119 Teaching childdren to want things that they do not need, to spend money >>>>>that they do not have, and to be hooked on repayments, plus interests, >>>>>for all their life.
4120 Writing is easy, thinking is the hard part.
4123 A shining anomaly pierces the gloom of Vespuccian unfriendliness.
4125 Fascination with money, even when totally irrelevant (the money).
4125 The scientific fraternity says that one billion is 1.000.000.000 or, >>>>>well, maybe 1.000.000.000.000; we say that one billion is neither.
4125 What is a killion?
4126 Those people persecute not only us; also the face of the Moon, as ... >>>>>satanical.
4127 Intense office work, more harmful to health than any other expeditionary >>>>>excess so far.
4128 Backyard walk, more harmful to health than the whole Expedition so far.
4130 Astonishing societal cracks too frequent to list.
4131 Mushrooms. Spiders.
4134 Friendly welcome in black neighborhood.
4137 Maize harvesting, more an office work than an agrarian toil.
4138 A label, reminder of Guatemala.
4143 A federal government out of money.
4144 A market for diplomats:
from caviar to tofu, including brains and kidneys.
4145 Concerted assault by police with firearms drawn on dangerous criminals: >>>>>us, while parked - where but in Vespuccia, in Washington, to be precise.
4147 A bald strip revered as National Mall.
4147 Washington - Teotihuacan - Brasília - Montevideo.
4148 (4167) The Obelisk, an appropriate symbol.
4148 Cheapest price to see Washington's favorite architectural style:
one cent.
4150 Pavement reminiscent of places ridiculed as underdeveloped.
4153 The lands from Egypt to Morocco are not in Africa, so implies that >>>>>museum.
4153 Surprise at the Organization of American States:
not a single "American" state included.
4153 Printing money without backing.
4157 An Air and Space Museum which should be an Aeronautics and Cosmonautics >>>>>Museum.
4158 And some other tiles in this capitaline mosaic.
(Including a church deserving 19 comments.)
4167 Flag flown over the Capitol - for sale.
4170 Telephone so modern that it may make - and at times does make - telephone >>>>>contact, or any contact, impossible.
4170 Is it misanthropy, paranoia, or what, in Washingtonian offices?
4172 Washington, Terra Ignota to 12.000.000 Vespuccians.
4174 The case of the blind photographer.
4174 Goddard Space Center.
4178 Belly-dancing academy mostly for men.
4180 Colonialists in collision: Hollanders defeat Swedes.
4180 Mushroom cultivation.
4190 Super-highways and infra-brains:
carom with 75 vehicles, 15 killed, 50 wounded.
4191 The many local "firsts" of Philadelphia.
4192 The difficulty of being Amish and modern.
4196 Some people do treat us nicely.
4197 Again: astonishing societal cracks.
4200 (4201) Organic food-plant growing.
4200 (4204) A merry-go-round for 1,500 cows.
4201 Outside large cities, a pedestrianless society.
4206 Whole perfectly sound neighborhoods, gutted; by the social disintegration >>>>>of their own ex-dwellers.
4207 Bad street identifications, reminiscent of so many places.
4208 Attempted swindle, reminiscent of Peru.
4209 The inventions and non-inventions of Mr. Edison.
4212 Garbage Museum.
4215 One more persecution by the Vespuccian police.
4216 Grading of police dictatorship/harassment, by country.
4218 Manhattan - Angoulême - Nieuw Amsterdam - Manhattan.
4228 Complete cycle of all works of Mozart.
4232 On the former site of a slaughterhouse, a gang of 159 boys practicing >>>>>democracy while not against the interests of the 5 bullies among them.
4232 A live museum of 16 bridges.
4232 A bridge, so long that its towers are off parallel.
4233 Fancied para-archaeology.
4234 A pyramid higher and broader than Cheop's, being built.
Of garbage.
4234 Several "largest on Earth".
4246 Privilege of observing the construction of a Gothic cathedral.
4250 A circle of many sculptures by children; some, master-works.
4251 A cathedral as interested in ecology, etc. as in theology.
4252 Factory of concert grand pianos.
4260 Pornophone offered publicly; billed "discreetly".
4263 Good items sinfully discarded as garbage.
4273 Reminiscent of Bolivia: postage stamp without printed price.
4273 Reminiscent of Lima: robberies, days and nights. We foiled one.
4278 Reminiscent of Lima: men relieving themselves on the street - even against >>>>> our own vehicle.
4278 Reminiscent of Bolivia: taxi license indelibly stenciled on doors.
4278 Reminiscent of Lima: private street-watchmen.
4279 Reminiscent of many places: walls vandalized with paint;
plus local specialty: trucks vandalized idem.
4279 Reminiscent of many places: garbage on the ground.
4284 Ethnic mosaic.
4288 The most completely home-less homeless people we have seen in the whole >>>>>Expedition.
4296 No cash accepted for fear of a holdup.
4296 A magnificently stocked public library.
4297 A library for children, with 100,000 books, magazines, recordings, in >>>>>50 languages.
4302 ¿Sinister happenings underground?
4303 The dangers of going to school.
4303 Two million New Yorkers functionally illiterate.
4304 National news on radio:
highest infant mortality among industrialized countries; one child in >>>>>eight is hungry; 15/oo of teenagers consider suicide; 6/oo try it.
4304 Polyglot radio station: 24 languages regularly scheduled.
4307 Is this really The End?