"Langston's Pen" from Skyzoo x !llmind *Music Video*

Illmind writing rhymes with a poet's pen...

Skyzoo & !llmind - Langston's Pen [Music Video].  (Dir. by Kenneth Price.)

"Langston's Pen" from Skyzoo x !llmind *Music Video*

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of Truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dope.  This song has me actually kind of checking for Knowledge Reigns again . . .

KRS-One & Showbiz - The Truth (2011). (Via.)


DAS EFX Feat. KRS-ONE - Represent The Real Hip-Hop.

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of Truth." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Twain

(Via StumbleUpon.)

Twain

Mark Twain's Memoirs To Be Published After 100 Years (2010)

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

(Via UC Berkeley Library.)

Mark Twain spent the last decade of his life toiling over his autobiography, and demanded the text not be published until 100 years after his death. That day has finally come. Twain wrote 5,000 pages of his memoir, and the University of California Berkeley will publish the first volume this fall. The eventual trilogy will have half a million words. Scholars argue over whether the Tom Sawyer author wanted to delay publication to talk freely about religion and politics or gossip freely about friends. Twain thought Christian missionaries trekking to Africa should stay in their own country and try to do something about lynching in the South. And an angry 400-page addendum details the tumultuous relationship with secretary Isabel Van Kleek Lyon in the last years of his life. (She bought him an electric sex toy, but also perhaps “hypnotized” Twain into giving her power of attorney over his estate.) Whatever his motivations, Twain “was certainly a man who knew how to make people want to buy a book,” a scholar says.

(Via The Daily Beast.)

Twain on masturbation here.

Mark Twain's Memoirs To Be Published After 100 Years (2010)

Some Thoughts On The Science of Onanism

One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American writers and artists, gathered to drink well, to eat a good dinner and hear an address by Mark Twain. He was among friends and, according to the custom of the club, he delivered a humorous talk on a subject hardly ever mentioned in public in that day and age. After the meeting, he preserved the manuscript among his papers. It was finally printed in a pamphlet limited to 50 copies 64 years later. (Via textfiles.com.)

Some Thoughts On The Science of Onanism