Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Sunday 10 August 2008

Hotel Modest amp Acceptable Somewhere

11.17

Hotel Modest & Acceptable, Somewhere Near Nowhere In The Vastnesses of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

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The adjoining room, within the party zone, woke up & came to immediate life at 08.12. This was a message to me that it was also Happy Gigster rising time.

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The breakfast trough was about as troughing as I have ever experienced I…

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… this, a solitary reading Englishman within the very young persons’ section. More out-of-place than usual, which is mostly, Bach & Hayden & Mozart acted to equilibrate the air, aided by Noise Cancellators set to savage.

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Returning to practising & developing developing variations…

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13.33  A call from the Minx – yippee!

The party-zone family-participants have checked out. The corridor is much quieter. The view is much the same…

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… with less cars…

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Practising continues.

18.07  A descending elevator-ride with the maintenance man. His demeanour was somewhat-below-exuberant & I enquired as to his response to the partying. Mr .Maintenance was not amused: someone had defecated in the swimming pool & he had been sanitising the entire pool.

Now back from a walk down the hill, in light rain, beginning to the left down-the-hill, a mile in the wrong direction; then to the right & left in the right direction, to Carrabba’s Italian Restaurant. Their seafood plate was quite warm, with the fish part quite hot. The young waiter enquired how was the meal?

RF:      The meal was not hot, other than the fish.

YW:     At least the fish was hot.

23.08  An evening computing. Enough.

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