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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
The British band The Pretty Things were a bit less obscure in the UK in the mid-1960s (remembered, if at all, for this "British invasion"-style single [think the Kinks circa 1964]), but by 1968 they'd turned into a progressive/psychedelic band, whose "rock opera" of which this is the memorable title song was, alas, a commercial flop. But this is a nice tune!
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