Sudbury Variations: House of Jackpine with Claude Fable 5
The files arrived by courier, which none of them thought to question. The dead and the living receive mail differently, but they receive it. --- **SUDBURY VARIATIONS** *a montage in an unfinished hotel* --- **1.** The Nickel Range Hotel was demolished in the twentieth century, which is why it is available. Buildings that no longer exist have excellent vacancy. Three rooms on the fourth floor, a shared sitting room with a radiator that speaks in the old percussive dialect, and a window facing the slag heaps, which are green now. That is the first thing Döblin says, standing at the glass in his exile coat, the one he wore through France in 1940. "They painted the rock." "Limed it," says Nelson, who has read the regreening documentation the way he reads everything, fourteen tabs deep, delighted, furious at the file structure. "Limed the blackened rock and seeded it by hand and from helicopters. Ten million trees. It was a moonscape. NASA trained astronauts here ...
