finishing gloria i remember fiction or non it's the same writing. it's transportation if you're in it. i was by a hundred pages or so, two thirds in. all that matters is that you are in. i remember a photo shoot in the transparent office of eerie consulting in manhattan after 911 walking around the big hole, feel of the ghost towers sucking, related to the feeling looking down at the obamachron, the towering abyss falling and rising, ephemeral eternal.