We came down like the rain, hard and angular. I landed in Houston in the midst of a vicious storm, not long before air traffic control grounded all departing flights. This wasn’t in the forecast, I thought – but then the airwaves that weekend were full of shaky predictions: a big Blue Wave was coming, and it was going to break first in Texas. I had arrived for the opening preview of the new Menil Drawing Institute, four days before the US midterm elections. – 我们像雨一样下着，又硬又角。我在一场猛烈的暴风雨中降落在休斯敦，不久，空中交通管制就停止了所有起飞的航班。我想这在预测中没有，但是那个周末的电视广播充满了不稳定的预测：一个巨大的蓝浪即将来临，而且它将在得克萨斯州首开纪录。我是在美国中期选举前四天来参加新梅尼尔画研究所的开幕式预览的。