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André Masson
ERRANCE I (1959)

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Sandra Blow
SPACE AND MATTER (1959)

Playing

Mississippi Fred McDowell
THE FIRST RECORDINGS

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[Woodblock Print Edition]

Tamami Shima
GAME FOWL (1959)

Playing

Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson
LOUIS ARMSTRONG MEETS OSCAR PETERSON

Playing

Sun Ra and His Arkestra
JAZZ IN SILHOUETTE

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Nathan Oliveira
STANDING MAN WITH STICK (1959)

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David Park
ETHIOPIA (1959)

Playing

Chet Baker
CHET BAKER IN MILAN

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Ronald Bladen
UNTITLED NUMBER 3 (c. 1956-59)

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Jean Dubuffet
COMBAT BEARD (1959)

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John D. Graham
UNTITLED (SELF-PORTRAIT)
1959

Playing

Thelonious Monk
THELONIOUS ALONE IN SAN FRANCISCO

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Robert Motherwell
AN UNGAINLY FIGURE (1959)

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism and Human Emotions

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Les Séquestrés d'Altona

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

THOMAS MERTON
The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics. The former is supple and lifelike, it follows our experience. The latter is abstract and rigid, more ideal.

The latter is perfectly necessary, perfectly reliable: the former is only sometimes reliable and hardly ever systematic. But the logic of mathematics achieves necessity at the expense of living truth, it is less real than the other, although more certain. It achieves certainty by a flight from the concrete into abstraction.

Doubtless, to an idealist, this would seem to be a more perfect reality. I am not an idealist. The logic of the poet — that is, the logic of language or the experience itself — develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

November 2, 1939

EUGÈNE IONESCO
Rhinoceros

There are more dead people than living, and their numbers are increasing.

The living are getting rarer.

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Robert Rauschenberg
CANTO XIV/ CIRCLE SEVEN, ROUND 3, THE VIOLENT AGAINST GOD, NATURE, AND ART (1959-60)
From the series Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno

WALTER M. WILLER
A Canticle for Leibowitz

The world weighed heavily upon him. What did the world weigh? It weighs, but is not weighed. Sometimes its scales are crooked. It weighs life and labor in the balance against silver and gold. That’ll never balance. But fast and ruthless, it keeps on weighing. It spills a lot of life that way, and sometimes a little gold.

WALTER M. MILLER

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!