hey hey HEY hey!

 

"Assertiveness provokes resistance."

~ Michel de Montaigne

------------------------------ [excerpt, Jackie as Editor, by Greg Lawrence] ---------------------- In her afterword, which was printed in her elegant longhand, Jackie wrote, "What an extraordinary surprise and gift it was when Peter Beard first showed me the fables and drawings of Isak Dinesen's beloved Kamante.  

I had not known he was still alive.  

To hold his drawings was like touching a talisman that took you back to a world you thought had disappeared forever.  Maybe I was so affected because Out of Africa has always meant more to me than any other book....  It seems to me that so many of the movements of today, ecology, anti-materialism, communal living--were all in Out of Africa."

     Jackie quoted one of her favorite Dinesen passages, which read, in part, "If I know a song of Africa, of the Giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me?"  

     Jackie concluded, "Yes, it does have a song for her.  It is Peter Beard and Kamante who made it for her.  Kamante's drawings and Peter Beard's photographs share a purity--of a wild animal looking at the camera with free and vulnerable eyes."

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On You Tube type in

Roadblock, Janis Joplin

(uploader:  Big Brother & The Holding Company - Topic)

and play.

     I really like the part, 57 seconds in, where she goes, "Hey, hey HEY hey!" and the music takes off, going even faster and wilder.

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