Finish reading Richard Brautigan's 11th and final novel, An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1982, but not published until 1994 in a French translation as Cahier d'un Retour de Troie -- Diary of a Return from Troy -- and in English as above, 2000), having read the author's other 10 novels and all published poetry over the years extending back to 1980, first discovering Sombrero Fallout in a bookstore near the Appalachian Trail, then working back to Trout Fishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur (both evidently written in 1961 in this order, but not published respectively until 1967 and 1964) and beyond...
Also complete another read-through (both these volumes having been purchased this past June at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur) -- Ellen Pearlman's Nothing and Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde, 1942-1962, with studied chapters on John Cage (1912-1992) and the Beats (including Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969; Alan Ginsberg, 1926-1997; and Gary Snyder, b. 1930), and subsequently complete composition of Truly I Live in a Time of Darkness (7 pages total), the first movement re To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256 (after Bertolt Brecht), on the 179th day of summer, high up 3 to 98 (123 days 80+, 81 90-or-better)...
