music clip of the day

angels

Marion Williams and the Stars of Faith, “Mean Old World,” live, Netherlands (Utrecht), 1962

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lagniappe

art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Untitled (Forgotten Game), c. 1949

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reading table

Superiority to Fate
Is difficult to gain
‘Tis not conferred of any
But possible to earn

A pittance at a time
Until to Her surprise
The Soul with strict economy
Subsist till Paradise.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1043 (Franklin)