Blackout Author:John Tranter Prospero gazes upon California. His mission: to impose his speech on the wreck of modern America. Blackout consist of Shakespeare's The Tempest, the article 'Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream' by Joan Didion, and a chapter from 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe, with most of the words removed, and the remaining words and phrase... more »s interleaved, though in the same order as they appear in the original texts. No other words have been added.« less