Performance Indication #38

wistfully elegant






- George Crumb


Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 7:29 pm
Line: "SFO/Millbrae" BART train (car 1814y)
Location: between 12th Street and West Oakland stations

A gentleman boards at West Oakland station. He wears blue jeans, a blue coat, and a brown and white and orange striped stocking cap topped with a single fuzzy orange pom-pom. He prowls the train for a spare newspaper finally discovering an abandoned copy of the San Francisco Chronicle. With his new reading material in hand, the gentleman takes a seat next to the indication, positioning himself with great deliberance yet never noticing the indication. Having found his preferred sitting position, he slumps back into his chair, propping both knees against the back of the adjacent seat.