Contradictions Are Fun

The human spirit … is the favorite home of contradictions, indeed they do not seem to prosper or even find viable living conditions outside it.

José Saramago, All the Names, p. 228

Indeed, the same-day SFC listed both, which is a neat reminder that maybe whoever was taking the calls for the “Something Else” listings under Wasserman’s byline might not have known that Garcia was in the Grateful Dead. Occam’s Razor suggests just a basic mistake, but the former idea tickles me more.

I wonder if Merl played the Matrix anyway? He had played there a week and a half prior with Carlos Santana, but Carlos was already in Ghana for the big gig in Africa. I wouldn’t have minded hearing what Saunders-Kahn-Vitt would do as an organ trio, had I been down in the Marina this particular midweek. But there are lots of other interesting possibilities, which I invite you to speculate about in comments.