The fountain at Iron Horse Park in Haymarket District in downtown Lincoln seemed to be a very popular Kodak-movement & canoodling hotspot in hot summer nights. I readied my field-recording gears, patiently browsing through Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “El Avión de la Bella Durmiente” (Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane) in Doce cuentos peregrines (Strange Pilgrims) while waiting for my turn to get near the fountain. The chance of being accidently tackled by happy-visitors or vaporized by the power-of-love seemed greater than usual, so I waited. A safe spot finally presented itself when I was halfway through Márquez’s “Me Alquilo para Soñar” (I Sell My Dreams). Phew. I waved goodbye to Márquez’s magical world and started to make some field-recordings of subtle watery harmony.

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