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...free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...
Cycles of destruction and rebirth are hardly unknown to the Americas' native peoples. The Aymara people of Bolivia have a word for times of war, enslavement and privation: pachakuti, or the disruption of the universe. But pachakuti also contains the assumption that the cosmic order will be restored, ushering in a period of peace and harmony, or nayrapacha. Though their struggle has a far way to go, the native peoples of the two continents are hoping that nayrapacha is within their reach...
...different. In recent years, I have been mugged twice at knifepoint. Friends have been raped. Stories have been told about knives, and facial rearrangement. I'm sure this is the same for many students here. No longer are our fears transfused, as in childhood, into wonderful creatures and cosmic events. The annual festival of awakened demons, Halloween, has turned into a kinky excuse for parties, a chance to don leather garments and paint your face white. No one can seriously be chilled by a cemetery's annual effluence, when the roads outside present many more daily terrors...
...year (so the Bible says) when Caesar Augustus decreed that a census of the world be taken. A millennial year has thus occurred only once before: fifty generations ago, in the year 1000, on what was a very different, more primitive planet earth. So this one has a strange, cosmic prestige, a quality of the almost unprecedented. The world approaches it in states of giddiness, expectation and, consciously or unconsciously, a certain anxiety. The millennium looms as civilization's most spectacular birthday, but, as it approaches, the occasion also sends out nagging threats of comeuppance...
...band off into rock-group valhalla were seven other bands, each offering a short set in tribute to Bullet Lavolta. Among the more notable opening acts, Legendary Lunch featured a buffed drummer, and Chloe put on a wild show. When they played "Lost Cause" by the Australian band, the Cosmic Psychos, Gipe jumped on stage to perform the vocals...