Watching a film on iPhone is probably the best way to make the long subway train ride enjoyable. My second choice would be recite a long poem, but with my declining memory it seems to be not as facile as it used to be, especially when you are on a 20 mile bicycle ride or a NYC subway train where no mobile coverage at all so Wikipedia is as far as the end of the world. So we watched PBS’s Bob Marley Story – Rebel Music.

Marley and Milosz both believed the power of muse, in music or poetry.

Just by coincidence, on October 8th 1980 Bob Marley collapsed on stage and was brought to hospital, the second day on October 9^th 1980 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to Czeslaw Milosz. Read the rest of this entry »