IN THE MIDDLE OF THINGS

Holland, 1945 is the wounded heart of “Aeroplane”:

“The only girl I've ever loved
Was born with roses in her eyes,
But then they buried her alive
One evening, 1945,
With just her sister at her side...”

It is the death of Anne Frank told in strokes of magic realism, which seems appropriate for something as phantasmagorical as the Holocaust.

The song starts with singer Jeff Mangum counting off “2, 1-2-3-4.”

And starting the countoff with 2 seems appropriate as well.

Because we are always falling in and out of events in medias res.

And things don’t often start at 1...