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On August 28, 1963, one-quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. They heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech. This author observes that "not a single drop of blood falls for all the violence of four hundred years (p. 270)." As I read this novel, I guess that maybe each page contains an equally valuable insight that I hold dear.
— Jun 18, 2019 10:48PM
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James
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Early 1970's. . . There was a war going on . . .the United States versus Vietnam . . .war of consonance against dissonance, electric against acoustic, written against improvised, rhythm against melody, shock against decency, long hair against longhair, past against future, rock against folk against jazz against metal against funk against blues agaisnt pop against gospel against country, black against white.
— Jun 22, 2019 12:08PM
James
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We walked down Beale Street, where the baby Blueswssleft out howling. The street felt self-conscious--two blocks of music bars looking like a theme park, the Colonial Williamsburg of the one true American art (p.308).
— Jun 19, 2019 09:41PM
