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Soul power by Andrew Kopkind (1967)
00:28:35 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, the 60’s, history of new left, Black power, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rap Brown, SNCC, Shakespeare, riots, Democrats all useless.
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A truce for the creatures by Colette (1904)
00:04:16 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0374131023
KEYWORDS: Art, story, life of animals during and after war, ducks, animals and their hope in us, flowers, the pecking order is wrong, tit, rabbits, almonds, petals, the bombs have stopped and life can go on.
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Theologico historical fragment by Walter Benjamin (1939)
00:04:03 mp3 / Odd rhythm of reading, mispronounced Latin / ISBN 080520802X
KEYWORDS: History, messiah, nihilism, messianic time, just plain difficult.
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The moral equivalent of war by William James (1906)
00:38:46 mp3 / no problem reading, only problem is with the war
TEXT ONLINE AT: http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/moral.html
KEYWORDS: History, critique of war, war culture as discipline, need for boundaries, Pacifism must become militant in order to stop wars, what are we fighting for.
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Shell shock and Richard the third by MFK Fisher (1937)
00:10:15 mp3 / No problems except the war / ISBN 0764542613
KEYWORDS: Hunger, history of decadent cuisine, soup made from shoes, potted poodle meat, cuisine during wartime.
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Refugees of the new left by Andrew Kopkind (1973)
00:34:52 mp3 / No problems except the war / ISBN 1859849024
KEYWORDS: History, new left, Rennie Davis, Sally Kempton, New age spirituality as a form of resistance against hopelessness in the collapse and defeat of the new left, religious and cultist organizing, politics as extinct language.
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Lust for loss by Lynne Tillman (2002)
00:19:43 mp3 / No problem reading / ISBN 1891024469
KEYWORDS: Art, story, Madame Realism, World War II, Omaha, Normandy, strangers, getting lost, get lost, routine as a kind of death, what we owe to the dead, a sea of crosses
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Letter to Constance Webb by C.L.R. James (1944)
00:05:07 mp3 / No problem except the war / ISBN 0631184953
KEYWORDS: Love letter, history, revolution and modern poetry, Hume to Marx, Constance Webb, T.S. Eliot, How to woo a woman using Trotsky, love from very very far.
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How to pray for peace by M.F.K. Fisher (1942)
00:05:41 mp3 / Mispronounced French / ISBN 0865473366
KEYWORDS: Eating, potato, war, potato soup recipe, peace, forgotten pangs of hunger during peace.
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Gastro-porn by Alexander Cockburn (1977)
00:30:19 mp3 / Uncontrollable laughter, mispronounced French, German, English / ISBN 0860911764
KEYWORDS: History, cookbooks as pornography, Brillat-Savarin is a long-winded bore, South of France, cuisine and imperialism, cold fish and mayonnaise.
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