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jfk assassination: i was in my grandfather's livingroom watching an enormous black and white tv. i dont remember why it happened to be on.
oj: i watched alot of the trial that summer, exclusively on e! entertainment television because they covered like like a sporting event.
wtc: i had just walked into the penn book center when the report concerning the second plane came over the radio. i remember walking through the student union later that day, through what seemed like hundreds of students standing and sitting in groups, shellshocked, staring at huge tv screens the university had set up. the footage of the trade center collapse was already on auto-repeat. they university had established these strange groups of roaming therapists and set them into motion in that space. they wore sports jackets, like the broadcasters from the wide world of sports used to.
red sox winning the world series: i was in my local bocal, saying "i never throught i would see this" over and over to myself. between gulps of beer and the occaisonal attempt to mimic the sounds actual sports fans make when something they like seeing is happening on screen.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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