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Open-mic Reading
Friday, September 16, 8-10 p.m.
“Spoken Word Series: Hurricane Relief Reading”
Fauntleroy’s Cafe and the poets of Mosaic are hosting an open-mic reading to benefit people impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Suggested ‘cover’ donation of $3 to $5 for readers and audience; all money collected will be donated to American Red Cross, Bluegrass Chapter.
Enjoy great jazz, poetry, and coffee while helping those in need!
Fauntleroy’s Cafe is located on the corner of Maxwell and Merino Streets, behind Rupp Arena, with free and accessible parking. For more information, contact Joanie DiMartino at ladyvishuss@earthlink.net or Fauntleroy’s Cafe at (859) 455-8188.
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“…Now I want you to tell me just one thing more. Why do you hate the South?”
“I don’t hate it,” Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; “I don’t hate it,” he said. I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it. I don’t hate it.
— closing lines of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (The Modern Library, 1936)
“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas,” Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday with the radio program “Marketplace.” “Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.”
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,” she said, “so this is working very well for them.”
— New York Times online, September 7, 2005
“And he said, ‘History,’ and then he took his hands out of his pocket and kind of shrugged and extended his hands as if this is a way off. And then he said, ‘History, we don’t know. We’ll all be dead.’”
— Bob Woodward quoting George W. Bush on Sixty Minutes, April 18, 2004
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
— Gavin Stevens to Temple Drake in William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun (1951)
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