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a series of musings nearly entitled, “I am frightened by the way people tire of the world.”
I have had a negative amount of desire to write but Toni Morrison said it’s your job to write when evil wishes to distract you so. Here I am, I suppose. The thesis of today’s musings are that we want the fiction of a happy ending more than we want actual liberation.
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Selected Jazz of the Episode:
Muziqa heywete x Getatchew Mekurya
Afternoon of a Swan x Speedy West
HOW CAN WE MEND A BROKEN HEART x Kahil El’Zabar
Love and Peace x Quincy Jones
A Taste of Honey x Andy Bey, The Bey Sisters
Better Than x Lake Street Drive
Soul Serenade x Aretha Franklin
La notte muore (orchestra) x Sandro Brugnolini
Sweet Leilani x Les Paul & His Trio
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