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  1. Comment on Things Fall Apart in ~society

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    Nietzsche: "The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

    Nietzsche: "The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

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  2. Comment on ~music Listening Club 5 - A Love Supreme in ~music

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    Definitely a desert-island album for me. Never gets old. Might get my vote for greatest album ever recorded. It's the album that introduced to the spiritual aspect of jazz music and, to some...

    Definitely a desert-island album for me. Never gets old. Might get my vote for greatest album ever recorded. It's the album that introduced to the spiritual aspect of jazz music and, to some extent, of music in general..

    If you've never seen it, check out this video which plays the opening Psalm synced with Coltrane's own handwritten lyrics.

    Imagine the stuff that was going on in that man's head while he played.

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  3. Comment on Leo Kottke — Wheels (1975) in ~music

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    Thx for this.. I've long enjoyed Kottke but don't recall hearing this

    Thx for this.. I've long enjoyed Kottke but don't recall hearing this

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  4. Comment on Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter (Houston, TX, 1973) in ~music

  5. Comment on Francis Bebey - Sanza Tristesse in ~music

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