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Contrary to Common Sense
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Already the bugs were in it. In the hot summer of 1885, while Mr. Edison rested at home in Woodside Villa, New York, taking perhaps the only self-prescribed vacation of his life, as he was still somewhat debilitated after the death of his first wife, they came buzzing all over the house — for bugs,… Read more
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Days and Ways
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Edward Strickland, in his book American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music, gives the story: After abandoning the solo concerts in early 1984, Jarrett began releasing albums of jazz standards with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette, with whom he continues touring and recording. For a year and a half he devoted himself primarily to performing classical… Read more
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An Abduction
“Assück featuring members of Assück.” Read more
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Explosions at Dawn
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Their Finest Hour, or, Triumph and Tragedy
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The Way to Astrophysics
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July 1, 19431: I was joining the Observatory of Haute-Provence. I was full of emotions and feelings, which certainly had, in a very subtle way, an influence on my scientific life. It was the beginning of an illegal life. I had a complete set of papers (false papers), identity card, food card, and most important… Read more
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These Swiveled Meanings
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It’s June and summer’s heightthe longest bride of lightleaps from all the rivetsof the skyYet it’s of earthand nowhere else I have to speakOnly on earth has this light taken onthese swiveled meanings, only on this earthwhere we are dying befouled, gritting our teethlosing our guided stars has this lightfound an alphabet a mouth Read more
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The Citadel
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Vase de Noces
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SALEM, June 15, 1835. – A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it, – large marine vegetables, of an olive-color, with round, slender, snake-like stalks, four or five feet long, and nearly two feet broad:… Read more
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Three Year Agreement