Sy and I went to the circus,
I got hit with a rolling pin;
But we got even with the circus,
We got tickets but we didn't go in.
Ezra Hillel Seidman Schott
If love is truly going out fashion forever, which I do not believe, then along with our nurtured indifference to each other will be an even more contemptuous indifference to each others' objects of reverence. I thought it was Iggy Stooge, you thought it was Joni Mitchell or whoever else seemed to speak for your private, entirely circumscribed situation's many pains and few ecstasies. We will continue to fragment in this manner, because solipsism holds all the cards at present; it is a king whose domain engulfs even Elvis's. But I can guarantee you one thing: we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. So I won’t bother saying goodbye to his corpse. I will say goodbye to you.
Lester Bangs
August 29, 1977
--in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, ed. Greil Marcus.
How all's to one thing wrought!
The members, how they sit!
O what a tune the thought
Must be that fancied it.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)
Monk took the first bop group into the Greenwich Village
when he open at the Village Vanguard on Seventh Avenue in 1948.
Samuel Charters
--in Jazz: A History of the New York Scene (DaCapo Press)
The time of day in dreams very often stands for the age of the dreamer at some particular period of his childhood.
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.