I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
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Edith Cavell, Public Servant (1915) |
John Denver, Musician (1997) |
Lord Hailsham, Politician (2001) |
Alf Landon, Politician (1987) |
Robert E. Lee, Soldier (1870) |