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The people are the city - Shakespeare Coriolanus Act 3 Scene 1

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

Emerson

All the stores will open if you will say the magic words. The magic words are: Up against the wall mothers fuckers this is a stickup! Or smash the window at night (these are magic actions) smash the win- dows daytime, anytime, together let's smash the windows drag the bastards from in there. No money down. No time to pay Just take what you want. The magic dance in the street. Run

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up and down Broad Street. Niggers, take the shit you want, take their lives if need be, but get what you want what you need.

From New York Times January 5, 1968

(judge bases severity of sentence on poem) published in December. Evergreen Review "addressed to the 'Black People!' the poem as read by the judge, listed the merchandise in some of the city's larger department stores and in the 'smaller joosh enterprises' and continued" as quoted above.

4.5.69

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

Mies van der Rohe quoted in the New York Times 8.19.69