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First version: June 4, 2005
Second: May 3, 2005
Third: May 22, 2005
Wallace Stevens:
"To see the nothing that
is not there ... "
GREENWICH_SECEDES
Washington Square
Park was under
assault by Robert
Moses. He wanted to build a midtown highway in
Manhattan that would have replaced
Washington Square Park in Greenwich
What would that Village with a highway entrance ramp.
have done to the
folk scene? This idea was
shot down by
If it had (Would we have "grass-roots"
happened... gone into the forces organized
who would be 1960s without by people like
able to see Bob Dylan?) Jane Jacobs.
the strange
gap it left Shortly
in our afterwards,
culture? this Park
became a
Hard enough to see venue for
what's there... folk singers,
war protests...
There have been other
battles that were lost.
What voids have they
produced?
What have we
We live in shelters done to
riddled with holes. ourselves?
Surrounded by ghosts...
"... and the nothing that is":
political
conspiracies;
organized crime;
apathy, despair,
paralysis...
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