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Sun Ra: Wooze and Spazz

Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 11 October 2000

IN HIS FAMOUS essay "Kafka and his Precursors," Jorge Luis Borges argues that Zeno, Han Yu, and Kierkegaard, though nothing alike, all now seem Kafkaesque. "Every writer creates his own precursors," Borges concludes. "His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." Cool.

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