Joni Mitchell sings “California” on The Johnny Cash Show. This episode was originally telecast by ABC in 1969:
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Archives for October 5, 2016
Almanac: George Gissing on the books you’ll never read again
“Ah! the books that one will never read again. They gave delight, perchance something more; they left a perfume in the memory; but life has passed them by for ever. I have but to muse, and one after another they rise before me. Books gentle and quieting; books noble and inspiring; books that well merit to be pored over, not once but many a time. Yet never again shall I hold them in my hand; the years fly too quickly, and are too few. Perhaps when I lie waiting for the end, some of those lost books will come into my wandering thoughts, and I shall remember them as friends to whom I owed a kindness—friends passed upon the way. What regret in that last farewell!”
George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (courtesy of Levi Stahl)