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...years ago, Mark got really into New Age: crystals, aromatherapy, veganism. He put down his harmonica and took up yoga. He followed some guru out to a town called Ayer, 40 miles northwest of Boston. No one knew what he was doing out there, but no one had ever known what Mark was doing, really...
...last Friday afternoon, having commissioned a roommate's boyfriend and his car, I set out for Ayer, Massachusetts. I didn't have Mark's street address, as all he'd given anyone was his post office box, but I remembered him telling me at one point that he worked in a health food store. Unfortunately, there were no health food stores on the main street of the working-class ghost-town of Ayer. So, I stopped into the next logical place--a liquor store. Have you seen this man? I asked the clerk, flashing my picture. He hadn...
...asked her if she knew anything about the New Age guru Mark had followed to Ayer. She said that her name was Joyce and she lived in Groton, Massachusetts. She hadn't heard anything about my uncle's health food store job, but she happened to know that there was but one health food store in Groton, and that it was on the main street...
Meanwhile, night had fallen and my driver wanted dinner. I agreed to head back to Harvard without my green sash, my golden fleece, the right shoe size for my glass slipper. We drove back toward Route Two in silence. All of a sudden, I spotted the Ayer Police Station. Stop! I cried...
When I taught a course on Australian history in the fall, I began by showing slides of Australia's two most recognized icons--Uluru (or Ayer's Rock) and the Sydney Opera House. They make an interesting pair. That extraordinary monolith, Uluru, not only serves as an image of the Outback, but, as an Aboriginal sacred site, of the culture of the first Australians. The Sydney Opera House on the other hand, a symbol of modernism in expansive mood, reminds us that Australia is also a highly urbanized society capable of producing its own monuments...