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titus n. owl ([personal profile] titusnowl) wrote2007-08-22 06:48 pm

Temporal Dissonance

I've been feeling that temporal dissonance again today.  I wrote this longhand at work because the "memory" hit me at about 8:35 while I was listening to the Brian Jonestown Massacre:

A cafeteria - in a basement?  No windows; brick walls, I think; brown speckled linoleum in that dusty cocoa-powder colour; thick plastic trays, orange, think they're melamine; paper soda cups with slightly-wobbly vertical stripes printed on them, but I can't tell whether the stripes are green or orange or tan or multicoloured; hanging light fixtures with rectangular frosted-glass shades; it's not crowded, but it's not empty - just after closing time, perhaps?  Patrons still there, employees preparing to leave.  It's in a transitory place like an airport or a bus stop or a train station, I think.  I feel like it's in Boston or something, but what the hell was I doing in Boston?  This is before the truck thing, though.  Were colour schemes like that in fashion by 1973 or '74?