a vain effort to stave

"A Vain Effort to Stave," October 7, 2022 (#280)

title from Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (1994)

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. LeGuin (1989)

More Than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and Musicians ed. by Irene V. Jackson (1985)

A Vain Effort to Stave

The names that run along the road that runs along the coast in

a number of interrelated factors that contributed to this development

in the long sweet grass and the sage, the holy sage, that purifies. Crickets

were overwhelmingly critical of the dialect, disavowing its African

practice, sure, but it's like playing the guitar; you don't have to be

enough to qualify a song for "advanced" status, attention must be

on a first-name basis, only this one is distanced--seems dull, insipid,

an unfaithful generation bent on abandoning its heritage. But in

the hysterical tension established in the opening scene and never

the final line of the stanza, however, the closure is strengthened.

10-7-22 of Landscape with Red Cloud by Konrad Mäji (1914)

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