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Notes on "Condominium of Free Will" and "Brain Drain in Mississippi"

Georgian writer, performance artist, peace and human rights activist, Irakli Kakabadze has shared the lyrics and notes about the construction of two of his songs, "Condominium of Free Will" and "Brain Drain in Mississippi." YouTube links to each song have also been provided.

Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel

Hip hop suggests that doggerel can achieve a surprising flexibility, ranging from the comic to the serious, from the delicate to the vulgar. It would be a mistake, though, to say the technique determines the result.

Living, loving, and party-going in Shakespeare

Plays have to end, but no one so well as Shakespeare understood how to use them to offer the hospitality of time, the interim of friendship.

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