14-05-2013, 11:09 AM
Quote:Mimi Baez, Joan's sister, was married to the folk singer and poet Richard Farina.
Farina was the best friend of Thomas Pynchon.
Farina is Joan Baez's brother-in-law who died in a motorcycle accident.
Pynchon dedicated Gravity's Rainbow to Richard Farina.
Interesting, new to me [only knew what is on the first line], and with a strange synchronicity to it.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass