antennae, pieces of metal that became antennae. Really it looked
like the biggest beetle you���ve ever seen.
CB: A ghastly beast ��� I saw it at the time. I went earlier today to
look at the site.
NM: They took it away.
CB: It looked like there was a mound in the earth and they put
some vegetation over it.
NM: Maybe they decided it was cheaper to cover it with dirt and
grow something.
CB: One of these days I���m going to go over there with a shovel
and see if it���s still there, but I worry about disturbing the bones
of the dead. I did think the section in your book is interesting for
the ceremony and the invocation of religious language at a time
when, as you say, marriages were breaking up. Five marriages that
you witnessed that summer.
NM: And one of them was mine.
CB: You connected this with the moon shot, as if our lunar assault
was destroying our ability to sustain love.
NM: I was married at the time to Beverly Bentley, and I���ve never
known a human being who was as sensitive to the moon as Beverly.
Whenever there was a full moon, I dreaded it, because about two
in the morning she couldn���t sleep and she���d go out on our deck ���
at that time we were living at 565 Commercial Street ��� and she���d
bellow at the moon. She���d say, ���Oh, Moon! Don���t you pretend
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