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...many people 1971 was a year of decline. The Band continued to slide downhill with the release of Cahoots. Jethro Tull became self-indulgent with Aqualung. If anyone had ever questioned the death of the San Francisco sound, Grace Slick et-al. confirmed their suspicions with Bark, and a spate of pseudo-solo albums. With the release of Future Games, Fleetwood Mac proved conclusively that it will never make it without Peter Green. And Peter Green with the release of his solo album proved conclusively that he'll never make it without Fleetwood Mac. Ram and Wings helped Paul McCartney...
After breakfast Ivan and his work group go off to a construction sight two miles away to lay bricks. The guards bark at them to march in rows of five and to the sound of ringing bells a long column of dark suited men walk against the snow and sky. As they approach the work sight Ivan tells us in his third person voice that the prisoner's food is rationed according to the work rate his group achieves. The prisoners are not goaded by guards but by one another: "The authorities had found a way to make us work...
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs...
...must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like...