Against The Day

A number of artistic, musical and historical refences and events suggest themselves throughout the book. There is Turner painting light. References to figurative and post figurative painting. Film and photography. Performance, trickery, magic, escapism (e.g. Houdini) and a lot of card games (esp tarot, poker), battleship, and even video games suggest themselves throughout. Musical references to harmony, chords, and harmonics, as well as songs, voices, and melodies offer a soundtrack, as well as a means of explicating tone and time. Musicians appear as jazz players, uke and guitar players, and there seems a strong likelhood that the Grateful Dead and the Merry Pranksters are among our travelers.