Monthly Archives: September 2011

Advice For Young People

a piece of handwritten advice from Thelonius Monk to saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1960
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Operation Ajax

While drowning in the oceans of sickly sweet platitudes and musings on the 10 year anniversary of the September attacks I can’t help but remember the inane question asked time and again a decade back: “Why do they hate us?”. This was hardly a new question, nor the first generation to ask it. In 1953 [...]
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Philosophy in the Bedroom

Tender women, you ablaze with love’s fire, compensate yourselves now, and do so boldly and unafraid; persuade yourselves that there can exist no evil in obedience to Nature’s promptings, that it is not for one man she created you, but to please them all, without discrimination. Let no anxiety inhibit you. Imitate the Greek republicans; [...]
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