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I simply know next to nothing about my work in this way, as little as a plumber of the history of hydraulics. There is nothing/nobody with me when I'm writing, only the hellish job in hand. The 'eye of the mind' in Happy Days does not refer to Yeats any more than the 'revels' in Endgame (refer) to The Tempest. They are just bits of pipe I happen to have with me. Samuel Beckett
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Good to see and hear. What an unlikely but delightful pairing. Sad that he’s gone. Only Pete Seeger and Rambling Jack left now that Utah Phillips has joined Woody Guthrie and ‘Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too’.
Glad you liked it, Dick. For some reason I thought Jack Elliott was dead, so good to hear he’s still up and kicking. Great teller of tales. There’s a few early photographs of him here: http://www.cookephoto.com/ramblinjack.html