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[alice wellintown]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> Crisis? What Crisis?
>>
>
> hey if there's a crisis I hope it's the good kind where everybody pulls
> together and not the bad kind where there's a boom of blame swinging free
> and knocking people into the drink
>
> because if you think about it, in general, people who may be said to have
> precipitated the crisis and appear to profit from it are quite possibly
> the most traumatized because the lack of ability to act in a manner
> perceptible to others as moral is a type of crisis in itself...and thus
> requires rather pity than censure (I never really held with those
> who hold "pity to be poison" but more with Blake: Pity, Mercy, Peace
> and Love, which although its acronym comes out to sound like "pimple",
> still betokens an array of desirable responses to any crisis...
>
> but yeah, what crisis?  or, um, which crisis?

An allusion to Supertramp and Nick Drake and Poor Boy. Crisis? What
Crisis? is the fourth album by progressive rock band Supertramp,
released in 1975. One of the cuts: "Poor Boy" A contrast, as Nick
Drake's Poor Boy is satirized when the colored girls go ...doot ...so
sorry for his-self and the Bowie-sax, who played that Sax rip-off on
Walk on the Wild Side, blares unlike that Irish foghorn in the Mystic
born before the wind, but we all need someone we can greed on ...we've
been taught by souls in every rolling stone how to play monopoly and
how to sing in the rain and how to hold our locomotive breath when the
sperm from the gutter hits the fantastic ash-heap and ashes ashes as
thick as a brick hit us where we're never lookin. But Gatsby, he made
out all right in the end. It Nick what's got to go back home again to
the best of what's all around you dear Martha.