Fugues

Everyone has heard of "deja vu." Well, a "fugue" is something similar, sort of a temporary flight from the hear and now to a time past. Sometimes there are catalysts that spark the fugue; other times they just happen. I did a column on them a few years ago, speaking to a psychologists about them.

I've had quite a few of them lately. Why? I don't know. Some followed things I saw or heard. There's a television commercial with the background music Super Freak. I suddenly found myself around my brother's dry bar, a couple years ago, at a party, singing Super Freak with a half dozen other folks. Hmmm. And, driving the other day, I was traveling on the Mass Pike, Interstate 90, near Lenox and Stockbridge (remember the James Taylor song?). No, I was really about two miles from home, but I thought I was in Mass. And Singapore slings and sloe gin fizzes? Who knows?

But, they are cool.