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have to say, the piece works doesn't it?
what other point could there have been to it beyond having this kind of discussion?
i mean, no matter how it played out, the piece is an exemplary gesture and the point of such gestures is the discussions they trigger. if she had been able to get to her destination unharmed--sadder but wiser--whatever, there's have maybe been the opposite discussion, with folk being all pissy that something DIDN'T happen to her because human beings mostly suck.
so it's kinda funny: some of you comrades who argue that pippa branca was stupid as an individual to put herself at this kind of risk are doing *exactly* what her project was designed to engender when you say it.
sometimes art is more complicated than you think.
and not all of it is pretty.
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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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