Episode 1419 - Laurie Anderson
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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The Art of the Straight Line
The first time I felt that I was like, what is that? It's a really amazing thing. So the title of this book, the art of the straight line, what does that mean with an art form of circles to have a straight line? That was the title he came up with when he started writing this book. And you know, he never finished the book because he got very, very sick. He just kind of left all these notes for us. We followed through. There's a lot of tai chi images in his music. Also there's a song called Ecstasy and he's talking about inside the self as reeling as one of the lines.
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