Dispatch
Nocturne II: The Crowd
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The one about a dangerous crowd in Rio and a book that came back thirty years later. Dispatch 27 begins as an experiment: muted jazz, brain-wave tones, construction noise, and the narrator trying to write about Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power. Almost immediately, the book opens onto a memory.
Thirty years earlier, in a dark alley in Rio, a gathering of people became something larger than the…