A collection of essays recent and ancient, written as essay-essays, or as sections of discursive novels, many about music and various composers, others semi-biographical, and others about the cultural and political scene in sixties-America to the present. September 11th, and F-35 jets make their inevitable appearance, along with war and peace, Israel and Palestine, American chauvinism and its love affair with capital punishment, Obama, Trump, and even several possibilities of the positive.