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...Petrospectvies and Conclusions is not a book of self-advertisements, but a precious and noble statement of principle by as great a musician as has ever lived. Those principles come to light most movingly in two brief remarks. "One hopes to worship God with a little art, if one has any. "Then, in a moment of high sobriety and historical cognizance...
...validate old, bankrupt methods of coercion and murder by creating new, bankrupt methods of roughly the same things. "Doing one's thing," rightly understood, is a way of opening doors to the imagination. For student groups and others it has meant a very precious thing: "Among us, you are a free man. Become yourself." At the same time, "Do your own thing" can be twisted by the immature and undisciplined in accord with their own whims. Then it becomes a license, a kind of big or little game hunt. Activists ruin others because "their thing" demands intellectual or sexual...
...Precious Cargo...
...quickly became obvious that a moon landing was now out of the question; mission rules forbid a lunar landing if even one fuel cell becomes inoperative. The loss of two requires the earliest possible return to earth. Even worse, the second oxygen tank was now also rapidly spilling its precious cargo. Unless the venting could be stopped, there would soon be insufficient oxygen aboard Odyssey. Oxygen was essential not only for breathing; it would also be needed to react with hydrogen to produce power in the remaining?and apparently undamaged?fuel cell...
...This precious stone set in the silver sea, this realm, this England, is nothing more than a floating casino...