Subterfuge

(Please see Quattrefoil 1/10/09; Blind Windows 1/20/09; and Noir or Au Revoir 1/27/09.)

Could I shake the quatre-square? I moved around plenty, doing the unfamiliar, paying for things in cash, and wearing a hat.

Occasionally I'd catch glimpse of the devilish foil, but typically and consolingly in a more disciplined, intrinsic setting.

Was it the beginning of detente, or merely a ruse?
I consulted Sun Tzu, "Warfare is the way of deception."
Best to stay on guard.

Journal entry #665

6:22 a.m. North Berkeley

Waking thoughts free of concern with superfluous decoration. Focus instead on deep dish pizza, other forms of gothic tracery, their appropriation by local, influential architect Bernard Maybeck, and an afternoon program of unfinished Orson Welles' movies at the Pacific Film Archive.

To Do List: Climb Indian Rock
Call 22 clients
Lunch at Plearn
Go to P.F.A.

Little did I suspect the ambush that lay ahead (image below).