The Standing Wave of Survival

The same lineage carried a WWII pilot uncle who was shot down and held in a German Stalag, and who turned the cage into the dark irony and creative gold that became Stalag 17. It carried the plumber uncle at the Lawrence Radiation Lab, who ran the pipes of the nuclear citadel and refused, all his life, to confuse its plumbing with its moral direction. Coal mine, Stalag, radiation lab — three enclosures, three refusals to be defined by the enclosure. The standing wave held across all of them.