Some June (In Sum)

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by Lee Barry

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Imagine London in June over several years in the 1960s: While most people went about their workaday lives, The Beatles were in the studio working on tracks for most of the Beatles' releases. It was surely a paradigm shift: In an interesting temporal juxtaposition on June 3, the Beatles were in the studio in June 1967 with Paul overdubbing a bass part on I Don't Know. On June 3, 1998, I had a dream about the Beatles at my childhood home writing and performing songs. On June 4, 1995, Brian Eno was at the seaside in Ireland enjoying the late-evening sun, while on June 4, 1998, I was enjoying the summer morning sun at my kitchen table while having breakfast. Three years later on that day, Chicago was suffering through three weeks of cold and rainy weather. In fact, in many diary entries by various people, even those in California, June weather was similarly inclement. June 6, 1944 was D-day, but by June 1962, the Beatles were in the studio recording the bubbly Love Me Do. And by June 6, 1966 (the 4th anniversary of their first sessions at EMI) they were in the studio recording tracks for Revolver, including Tomorrow Never Knows. Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004 --an interesting juxtaposition with the 60th anniversary of D-Day. On June 5, 2004, Neil Peart was in Chicago during Rush's 30th-anniversary tour. As it was during the Bush administration, he quipped: "In 30 years of traveling around the United States, I have seen how entrenched Evangelical Christianity was in American life. Just before setting off for Nashville, I had read that 83% of Americans called themselves Christians...You can reason with people's minds, but you can't argue with their faith." Imagine Paris in June: On June 6, 1907, Count Harry Kessler was having lunch with sculptor Auguste Rodin. A few days later he chats with a friend about a possible revolution in France. On June 10, 2005, I had a title idea: The Dark Cloud of Democracy. On June 10, 1995, Eno reminisced that it was 30 years prior he had gone to the great poetry festival at the Albert Hall. InSum is a personal diary "remixed" with the diaries of others (including fictional characters in the past and future) so as to highlight interesting chronological juxtapositions. It is the book version of the non-linear film which skips around in time in almost a random fashion, but is logical in some ways: For example, something happening in June 1964 would echo into June 1968, or even June 2048, or June 1868.

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