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Book cover for Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
This is because the temporal structures of improvised music differ from the current of time that constitutes composed, prepracticed pieces, where you always have to be thinking downstream, remembering ahead, in a sense. Instead, ...more
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A.S. King
“Graduation day means you must now do something with your life. You must grow up and buy your own train tickets, accrue student debt so you can become part of the machine. You must pick a major. The light comes only after that. Sorry about saying that graduation is the light at the end of the tunnel. That was a lie.”
A.S. King, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

Albert Camus
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Ibram X. Kendi
“Time and again, racist ideas have not been cooked up from the boiling pot of ignorance and hate. Time and again, powerful and brilliant men and women have produced racist ideas in order to justify the racist policies of their era, in order to redirect the blame for their era’s racial disparities away from those policies and onto Black people.”
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Albert Camus
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

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222633 Angela Carter Reading Group — 33 members — last activity Jan 03, 2021 01:30PM
This is a book group devoted to the writings of the British 20th-century author Angela Carter (1940-1992). It complements my Angela Carter Bookclub, w ...more
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