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“No, and it was nothing like 4/8/91. But those shows were mind-bending. Transcendent. I just feel bad for all the poor kids who will never get to experience that, ’cause they’re too busy with petty problems like making a living...
A More Transcendent Church
"Amy and Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of...
Haiti's very existence highlighted the deepest contradictions of the American revolutionary experiment. Though the U.S. Declaration of Independence stated that all men were created equal, Haitian slaves and free men and women of color battled what was then one of the world's most powerful armies to prove it...
Or perhaps the answer lies in the stars. The ancient Greeks showed that the harmonic intervals of their musical system, which was based on Persian concepts and in turn served as the basis of modern Western music, reflected fundamental mathematical proportions that they believed were a reflection of the order...