18-08-2012, 11:19 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I just can't see Pete Seger and Joan Baez accepting a prize from the Master of War. But then they are people of integrity
As a footnote in passing, Joan Baez's sister Mimi was married to writer and folksinger Richard Farina.
The Richard and Mimi Farina website is here.
Thomas Pynchon was a Cornell classmate of Richard Farina, and as the "Richard and Mimi" website states:
Quote:"Thomas Pynchon has written warmly of his friendship with Fariña in the 1983 edition of Been Down So Long. He was best man at Fariña's wedding with Mimi and a pallbearer at his funeral.
He dedicated his greatest novel, Gravity's Rainbow, "To Richard Fariña."
On April 30, 1966, Richard Farina was a passenger on a motorcycle which crashed in Carmel Valley, killing him instantly.
Joan Baez's song, "Sweet Sir Galahad", commemorates Fariña's death, the grieving of his widow Mimi, and Mimi's eventual recovery and remarriage.
Yes, these are people of integrity.
Not Dylan.
Not Obama.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war