
We attend to several Outrageous Voices, speaking about walking without conscious intention, Gooch’s Paradox (“things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to be seen”), the mediaeval habit of using other means than sense perception to authenticate reality, putting on an act in order to be yourself, advancing not by being sober, responsible, and cautious, but playful, rebellious, and immature, Tom Graves’s Nasruddin’s Law (“If something can go right, it probably will – if you let it – and usually in the most unexpected way”), and finally the attitude of contrariness, with Wendell Berry. You are invited to attend.
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We attend to the poem that gave us the phrase “ignorance is bliss” and reflect on what it means there, then a few songs on various kinds of ignorance and finally a George Ade fable about a “Learned Phrenologist” and the “Human Being” who gets a “good Jolly” and remains blissful in his ignornace. You are invited to attend.
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And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
Picking up on Whitman’s offer of help, we start with songs about helping and being helped, and then some absurd attempts at help, and then, moving further into Whitman, we draw upon Ralph Waldo Emerson’s call for us to “enjoy an original relation to the universe”, based on our own experience, not on what other’s have experienced. Blake comes into it, too, so does Joseph Campbell on myths. You are invited to attend.

We attend to different aspects of Moving, with one song after another, featuring: Kinks, Stones, Jr Walker, Josh White, Juke Boy Bonner, Temptations, Goons, Fats Waller, Melanie, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkle, Fraggle Rock. Something for everyone (maybe). You are invited to attend.
(As heard first on Cambridge 105 Radio.)