Premonition bleeds into insomnia deftly as a mouse surveying a stone floor of some anonymous building when, where 'Troy' opened his halfnumb eyes where he lay in the bed beside Samantha, Samantha sleeping. His nude body tolerably stiff in the vacancy of the bedclothes and the quiet room. Brooklyn everywhere without expiration. In the week before that death, the dockworkers, machinists, engineers had arrived, collectively, at the sobering & final understanding that the careful, accommodating approach they'd thus far maintained as the spearhead of their persuasion for better pay, healthier environs and reasonable working conditions had arrived at some natural apogee (in so many words) and some do-or-die atavistic gesture was all that would satisfy their position if any further progress was to be regarded seriously. They were going to rally & protest. They were less than 200 men, total, a pithy fraction for such a thing by today's standards. In each one's m...