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This is called Foolology.

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And this is on the
album-- the first album is

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set to music by Lester Bowie
of the Chicago Art Ensemble.

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I can't understand what
they're playing half the time,

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but you sound OK on this one.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Man, this new music boy, shoo'.

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I said that Cecil
Taylor concert.

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I said, oh my God.

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Oh no.

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Don't play it-- that's enough.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Don't tell him I said that.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Cecil Taylor is a great guy.

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Foolology.

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Don't tell him that I said it.

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Foolology.

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So they say you're not supposed
to have a-- a modern portrait,

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you're not supposed to
have a didactic system.

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No moral instruction.

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But in our tradition of--
folklore tradition you find--

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don't you ever do that
again because this

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will happen to you.

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You get one warning.

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So I got two of
them in here, OK?

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Shaken by his bad press
the wolf presses north,

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leaving caribou to the fox.

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Raven, the snow player,
gets his before buzzards

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with bright red
collars move in to dine

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near the bottom of a
long scavenger line.

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This poem is about a skunk.

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No, rather, about a man who,
though not of the skunk family,

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uses [INAUDIBLE]
the way skunks do.

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After he eats, his friends eat.

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He is a fool and some
friends are fools.

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But sometimes it's
hard to tell who's

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the biggest fool, this
fool or his fool friends.

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By the time they catch
us, we not there.

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We're crows.

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Nobody's ever seen a
dead crow on the highway.

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First moral, don't do
business with people for whom

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April 1 is an important date.

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[LAUGHTER]

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They will use your bank
balance to buy 8,000 pies--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--tunics, ballet
slippers with bells,

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and a mail order lake in
the middle of the desert

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for splash parties.

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Second moral, before you can
spot the fools in others,

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you must rid yourself
for the fool in you.

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You can tell a fool
by his big mouth.

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