Amiri Baraka's "Something In The Way Of Things [In Town]" from Bryan Green on Vimeo.
“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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This is very well put together is it not? And to commemorate it here is “Something in the Way of Things" which I have occasionally written about and often taught about:
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Wow.
Here's another Baraka: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/baraka/onlinepoems.htm
All of this makes me want to cry, though.
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