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"A Concert For New York"

In the world of Ray, his old Grid dream is starting to invade his institutional reality as everyone in the nuthouse but him leaves to participate in Gabriel and Josh's world concert. Turns out local developers have agreed not to tear down the sanitarium and Damoo's connected studio until the last inmate dies, and Ray is it. Nice developers they have in his world. I could use some with that degree of respect in my neighborhood.

Meanwhile, in New York, there have been a series of terrorist attacks, bombings ala London, not plane crashes as in 9/11. Good guess, 'though, as it turns out Our Author wrote this in 2000. The rocking Nostradamus strikes again, unfortunately in this case. A touch far-fetched, but Josh and Gabriel's concert is still going on despite the chaos in the city. Josh has brought Victoria to sing Gabriel's song. Leila arrives at the last minute to stop everything but decides to let it continue as a tribute to the city's victims.