i began receiving e-mails from charlie gonzalez, brendan butt her and others. it was a slow trickle as first, but by morning my inbox was swirling with voices that all wanted to contribute to the section. then i had to figure out what to do with them all. monday morning and afternoon were spent patching together descriptions and dialogues, sending drafts back and fort on the -- forth on the list serve and making last minute, frantic phone calls. there were sever several details that shouldn't be included. i tried to hide my growing panic as best i could. at 5:50, ten minutes before our deadline, they were still sending me mails about information they feldt should be included. i finally had to say, all right, it's as good as it's going to get and send the thing in. looking at it now, i can see it's made up of many voices that may not harmonize perfectly with one another, but i'm certain it's representative of the people and energy that existed in the space, and for that i feel satisfy. so i'm going to read a brief section from the chapter that that was just desc