Minutes of a Monday #29 (nearly minutes of a Tuesday)

Brain Food > A terrible beauty

“Sometimes I try and bring to mind what Arthur has given to me, not just when he was alive but in his absence, too, almost as a way of finding meaning in the hopelessness that descends from time to time. And, well, the truth of it is that Arthur’s passing ultimately became a motivating force, so that, over the years, Susie and I have experienced some beautiful, meaningful things in our lives, truly beautiful, meaningful things and in many ways they lead like a power trail directly back to Arthur’s death.

This is the secret, terrible beauty at the heart of loss, of grief.”

Nick Cave in conversation with Sean O’Hagan about his son’s death, in an excerpt from the book Faith, Hope and Carnage.

Soul Food

“There is properly no history; only biography.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

LOL

Conor Moore does it again:

Appendix

“When I first heard Elvis’s voice, I just knew I wasn’t going to work for anybody: and nobody was going to be my boss…hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.”

Bob Dylan

AOB

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