Up The River

Finished Wild Berries just now, alongside a small tribute to Jimmy Smith. It was quite appropriate. the second half of th eloses the thread of personality device that supports the first half. A small plot appears as the geologists experience an earthly challenge and each of them tests their own mettle morally in response. There are then two brief sections with Americans, who first travel to Moscow and then reflect upon their experience back in the States, and then one featuring Salvador Allende on 9.10.73 -- only hours before Pinochet and the CIA doused the flames of his ideal. The novel then ends with a 19th Century mathematician/mystic: such was incisive per the ideas promulgated.