NOTHING OR ALL (I'M A BELIEVER)

Every form of insentient existence -- plants, stones, or utensils

--  has its individual feelings similar to those of men.

Kevin Ayers: Don't Let It Get You Down (Link)

Text:  Basho (from Learn from the Pine)

Robert Wyatt: I'm A Believer (Link)

CLEAR

“I had no new facts on which to base my optimism, only a changed point of view.   And with it came a recollection of other things.”


And so the shafting and shivving by Vertex Inc., “where taxation meets innovation,” became the final straw. 

My back didn’t break, though; the scales did fall from my eyes. 

I decided after 5+ years of self-flagellation to value and try to enjoy the worth in what I was doing, to turn my back, take a step away from them, and stamp the dust from my shoes.


   “. . . There was no morning strafe, such as had been our usual fortune in the past week.  I went out-of-doors and found a noiseless world under a lowering sky.” 


Robert Wyatt: Alife (from Rock Bottom) (Link) 

Excerpts:  John Buchan, Mr Standfast (1919)

Endpapers:  Denton Welch (for Penguin)


What's My Line? (Video Link)

WHATEVERSHEBRINGSWESING -- 40TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY

I'm looking ‘round madly
For something to find
That might give me a Front
To put something Behind.

Link: Whatevershebringswesing (Kevin Ayers, released 11-28-71, Harvest Records)