You dont walk around with that instability it is always there at random without warning. Kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramble our lives. As life magazine would put it afterwards struggling to explain the hidden volatility that caused earthquake somewhere to earth is quivering all of the time. All right you want to start . Yeah. Okay. Thats what thats all about . Nice to have a book in hand and following along while it feels like being in church right now it is most like interactive experience ive had in a while so thank you past ton john. Thank you we can do anymore on that give me a call. Hi everyone thanks for being here. This is really weird and im i think more nervous than i would be if i was in person. Not that im staring at any own space. But were here to talk about john. You will be for the fore foreseeable future to have a little motel on our handle. How do you write a book . Where do you begin and how does it begin to happen . Yeah. Thats really good question. I m
You new programs and publishing news and watch the archived programs any time at the tv. Org. Spending more than five years in south africa he was elected to the African National congress. During the transformation after apartheid mmr of exile of red, white, and black the stricture of us antagonism. The rating has been honored with the legacy award for nonfiction and an ea promotion. In his new book memoir and philosophy through and from one another and with the worldview with examples from his own life which in turn forms philosophy. All yours. This is the third time ive done Something Like this. It seems to every time. Thank you for coming out tonight and sharing your evening with me in the auditorium of the free library of philadelphia. Now we are together like this so now in this type of situation there would have been an auditorium. I dont know. I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I will share with you an episode for my book. Those of you who have seen the book or read from the o
So history as you all know is about words. Thats why you are here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full meeting of our creed. And its also about music, and music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to song with which you might disagree, more ingeniously and more profitably and you couldmo ever listen to e speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely. As sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and the guns, they were carrying their pin and prose and poetry along with them to move this revolution forward and move our countryio forward. Henry David Thoreau once wrote when i hear music i fear no danger. I see, no foe unrelated to the earliest times into the latest. That pretty much sums up i th
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