Day 9

"...one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." -Goethe

A song for 3/21: DJ Shadow's "The Number Song" from his landmark Endtroducing..... album. The song - like all of the other tracks on the record - is almost entirely constructed of samples. It's worth listening to the whole album and going on a scavenger hunt for some of the source material (a game that's also fun to play with the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, The Avalanches' Since I Left You, and J Dilla's Donuts).

A poem for today from Cambridge's own E.E. Cummings:

Spring is like a perhaps hand

E. E. Cummings - 1894-1962

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Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

Works Cited

Cummings, E.E. (1894-1962). "Spring is like a perhaps hand." Poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/spring-perhaps-hand. Accessed 21 Mar. 2020.

DJ Shadow. "The Number Song." Endtroducing....., 1996, Mo' Wax.