The fire had burned to coals and he lay looking up at the stars in their places and the hot belt of matter that ran the chord of the dark vault overhead and he put his hands on the ground at either side of him and pressed them against the earth and in that old burning canopy of black he slowly turned dead center to the world, all of it taut and trembling and moving enormous and alive under his hands. - Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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Letter to Belmin
Hi B Interesting … you ask who was I most starstruck by/impressed by during my work life … well starstruck … I guess James Taylor, maybe Patti Smith … James because his musics was with me on a weekly basis since I was in college and as I told him when we worked together … after we finished … I don’t make any comment about being a fan or anything close to that until we finish … you want to be on his or anyones level, professionally speaking … until the work is in the can … but afterwards I told him “I mark my time by your music a lot” and he was charming enough to say, “I do the same thing." And Patti Smith … who you should wiki … poet, fab fab writer, punk music ma … I told her my writing changed after I saw her at a club … sing and read and perform … “my writing and my friends writing changed after we went to your show.” She said “we all find our people.” So sharp and generous … So many people ... because my work life at the station covered so many decades … the person ...
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... my belief that the raw material of good art is human sorrow, and when that sorrow is another’s, one has the obligation to treat it with great care and dignity. But I also believe the one who is loved is placed under an obligation. To survive and bear these trials with grace and dignity. Otherwise all our enterprise is a creature of the fates and all our imagination and invention and care will not be enough to save us. - James Baldwin
