Bedtime Story Conservatory 71 08/06/2020
Hello everyone,
It's 7pm and for the last few hours I have been kind of lost in my own room, I can't remember where I sat last and by all physical indications I have just eaten lunch, but it feels like hours ago. I hope your day feels a little more congruent.
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"To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall treeWhile night comes on gently, Dark like me—That is my dream!To fling my arms wideIn the face of the sun,Dance! Whirl! Whirl!Till the quick day is done.Rest at pale evening . . .A tall, slim tree . . .Night coming tenderly Black like me."
- Dream Variations 1926, Langston Hughes.
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3D model of a tall thin thin tree.
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Today's reading is an excerpt from Invisible Man 1952 by Ralph Ellison (1914-1994). This novel won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison was an African American novelist, literary critic and scholar from Oklahoma. The book addressed social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the 20th century.
The song attached the reading is Fleche D'or by Django Reinhardt, a song from the same year as the publication of this book from Paris and the year that Reinhardt apparently was becoming ill, his fingers becoming weaker.
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Warm wishes, lots of love,
Sam
Untitled, another item from again 1952 which I just found coincidentally by Gordon Parks, "an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography."
