Skip to main content    Take Me, Take Me With You  9 April 1971:
Lake Shaheen, New York  Are we going to see Daddy? Where is
Daddy? Momma? Where is Daddy?  This day at twilight when the sun
appears soft as an egg yolk at the horizon a solitary car is
observed descending route 39 into Lake Shaheen from the north.
In this dense-wooded landscape in the foothills of the
Chautauqua Mountains all horizons are foreshortened. Vehicles
appear suddenly around curves, rapidly descending into town,
though this car, driven by a woman with a blurred face and long
streaming hair, is being driven at about thirty-five miles an
hour—a careful speed, a calculated-seeming speed as the car
approaches the railroad crossing at the foot of the hill.  A
quarter-mile to the east, the 5:48 P.M. Chautauqua & Erie
freight is also approaching the crossing, much more rapidly.
Say you're the proprietor of Texas Hots Café. Say there's no
customer in the café at just this moment, so you've been smoking
a cigarette and staring out the front w