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there are other peculiarities in how kids are taught history. they get the idea that the entire colonial period emanated directly from the puritans, which gives the impression of some fundamentally religious dissident underpinning to the whole of it---which is entirely false. it's curious to think about where the need for a single Origin comes from if not from the idea of nation and the fact that as a name it is singular. so the same logic that prompted henry ford to sponsor an attempt to fashion a single american folk dance tradition in the early 1930s because the idea of multiple traditions didn't seem symmetrical which the notion of nation and that offended his fascist sensibilities.
just an aside.
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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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