and then benjamin linder, the first american who was killed in nicaragua during the contra situation, happened. and they all got a little more itchy, and i was--i could understand and said, "okay, i'll go down alone." and i could see their wives sitting there saying, "you're going where with paul? "uh, i don't think so. you have children, you know?" and i went down there and just had the most extraordinary time of my life. again, like paris, as silly as that may sound, it attracted just this amazing group of people from peasants to poets to military leaders to the head of the beijing opera association i traveled with at one point. and they had an international book fair going on at the same time. so it was just a thriving metropolis of ideas and people. and that's what i was looking for. and i found some musics down there that were very exhilarating. we'll probably do one of those songs tonight, actually; one called carlos fonseca, that's just very beautiful and sounds vaguely russian, actually. but a lovely melody and there's beautiful poetics written by thomas borge, who's the-- i t