more encouragement

Juliana has come in in favor of running "Butte County Timeline in Disarray" as a stream of text underneath the rest of the poems in Valley/Ridge. So that's something.

My instinct is to keep it. I can see what Walter was trying to say with it being too heavy, too definitive. He thought it creates a sense of gravity and drags the eye down. In a "spatial allegorical" sense, too much importance is given to the line of text that runs underneath the floaty spatial poems and landscape photographs.

My thinking, though, was sort of that with the poems and photographs I was enacting a sort of movement through space, and with the timeline I was enacting a movement through time.