Jeunet Pays a Visit

On Monday, May 7th, 2007 at precisely 12 noon – the lowest ebb of the tide, the clipper ship King Philip which ran aground at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach in 1878, mysteriously reemerged from the wet sand for the first time in twenty-seven years.

Eighteen hours and forty-five minutes later, at precisely 6:45 AM on Tuesday morning, May 8th, an unnamed woman was spotted swimming naked in San Francisco Bay. When rescued by a passing commuter ferry, she was determined to be having a “psychotic episode,” telling her rescuers that she was “under duress” when she willingly jumped into the water the previous evening.

Thirteen and a half hours later, at precisely 8:15 PM, during the bottom of the fourth inning, Barry Bonds hit his 745th career home run off of the New York Mets’ Tom Glavine, bringing him just ten short of Henry Aaron’s record.

One hour and fifteen minutes earlier, at precisely 7 PM, Ann Marie Wilson stood at the foot of San Francisco’s City Hall at Van Ness and Grove Streets, looking at the War Memorial Opera House, wherein a performance of the San Francisco Ballet’s Don Quixote had just begun. On the second floor portico – a small group of chefs in their uniforms were taking a smoke break. As she watched them she thought that it was such an odd juxtaposition: the haves and the have nots are always inextricably linked. She then remembered her own horoscope of the day which advised: “Your ability to see the larger view today enables you to plan with foresight. Where others see only confusion, you can see a pattern and come up with insights that will amaze others.”

As she thought of all this, she realized that she knew very few men with whom she could share this strange thought and have it understood. In an instant she thought of each of them, knowing that though it may not appear to be so at the moment, with the way the world works, any one of this select group could eventually become very very important.

Comments

[Pam]

Wo, this makes my head spin but I like it.

I hadn't heard about the naked bay swimmer. I wonder if it was Chris Gage's female counterpart?

[M2]

I understand.