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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. Denial, repression, all those psychological adaptations we developed in childhood were ways of not being there, because being there was too painful. Writing demands that we cut through and be where we are, like a cat gripping the side of Continue reading qotd

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Thelonious Monk via last.fm The piano ain’t got no wrong notes! — Thelonious Monk Posted via email from Patti’s posterous

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you. — Lyle, in Infinite Jest, page 389

qotd: Jazz

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. — Ornette Coleman