Two other pieces in this issue also deal directly with the mourning of loved ones. Recalling the Berkeley campus of her undergraduate days, Flossie Lewis describes the flux, and simultaneously recalls the memory of her husband, of the places they frequented, many that no longer exist. Dealing with a different sort of flux, our Bad Foreign Correspondent, John Brady, explores different ways of coping with our rapidly changing world, contrasting his yen for doughnuts in Berlin with the appeal of fundamentalist Islam to young Turks in Germany. And Ann Theis, building on a lively discussion from the Bad Subjects e-mail list, explores the dilemma libraries face as they must renew their collections. She talks about how libraries must not only remove unneeded or outdated books, but also incorporate new services, technologies, and programs to address the needs of less visible community groups.
Ideologies fluctuate, and individuals morph to inhabit the contours of their new worlds.
David Hawkes, not yet 30, gives insight on his need to act like a professor in order to write an academic book for Routledge Press. He illustrates this metamorphosis by shifitng voice mid-essay to summarize his project. After a little historical research, Richard Singer no longer laments that he was born too late to fully experience the radical Sixties. Instead, he pines for an even more radical time, the 1880s and 1890s, when anarchists still felt they had a chance to create major flux. Master of flux, Jerry Brown stands as the target of Rosemary Lemmis' informed critique, as she deconstructs the myth of Mr. Left.