The Open Phone

It’s 1961. How do we listen to them? What do we say to those who do not know the days, the times?
Is it right to expect them to understand what happened before them; what happened in 57. 63, 68, 73 … when they weren’t even young.
Do you know what they know now; should you care.

we were ugly, but we had the music…. that guy

for Sol

To discuss what one is doing rather than the artwork which results, to attempt to unravel the loops of creative activity, is, in many ways, a behavioral problem. The fusion of art, science and personality is involved. It leads to a consideration of our total relationship to a work of art, in which physical moves may lead to conceptual moves, in which Behavior relates to idea … “An organism is most efficient when it knows its own internal order.: — R. Ascott. 1964

The Twenties

The author’s work, no matter how intelligent, elaborate or rich and vigorous in imagination, always turns out to constitute a justification for some particular set of values, a making out a case against something or other in favor of something else, a melodrama in which, even if the hero is actually defeated, he is morally triumphant — and the hero may not be a person or persons but merely certain qualities or tendencies. — E. Wilson