Diary (May 26, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Tuesday May 25, 2020.

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Song of the Day for Howard Kranz

Twenty-second in a series of songs for Howard and me to cover, or be inspired by, or something.

You Can Make It If You Try

You Can Make It If You Try ... (Sly Stone)

"You Can Make It If You Try" by Sly and the Family Stone

You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try
Push a little harder
Think a little deeper
Don't let the plastic bring you down

All together now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try

Time's still creeping
Especially when you're sleeping
Wake up and go for what you know

All together now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try

You'll get what's due you
And everything coming to you
You got to move if you want to be ahead

All together now
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You can make it if you try
You can make it if you try

• You Can Make It If You Try @ YouTube
• You Can Make It If You Try @ Wikipedia
• Lyrics

The Middle of the Beast

Do It, Chapter 3 - The Middle of the Beast.

You Americans are so lucky..! You live in the middle of the beast. You are conducting the most important of all struggles, from the heart itself of all battle zones."

—Ernesto "Che" Guevara referring to the importance of metropolitan resistance, cited in J. Rubin’s Do It!)

TO_DO: verify citation.

• https://sabrinasoyer.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/jerry-rubin-do-it-scenarios-of-revolution.pdf

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)

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