Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Davidson of Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested...
...loved the men of cities?New York, New Orleans, Washington. He loved to drive a Broadway omnibus. He loved to listen to the stevedores on the Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...
...poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...
Meanwhile, after a slight pause to pay its respects to the good saint, the world will go sedately on its way, scarcely bothering to listen to the plaints of such organizations as the Klan, turning green with envy...
Then came Les Noces and Stravinsky plunged into the realm of the absolute. Music hereafter was to be utterly objective, to stand alone, to find inspiration for itself within itself, for its own sake, not for the sake of those who should listen, not even for his, Stravinsky's, sake...