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Harry Partch
The Hatchery Sessions
What does a composer do when the bulldozers show up before the last take is finished?
He burned every note he wrote before twenty-eight, scavenged Ford hubcaps and bomber nose cones, and built a forty-three-tone scale inside an abandoned chick hatchery. Then Harry Partch hit record as the demolition crew arrived.
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The Vanishing of the Inventor of Cinema
Three weeks before the demonstration that would have made him the undisputed inventor of cinema, he boarded a train and stopped existing.
A House for Foss
A Victorian poet built a second house identical to his first, same rooms, same floor plan, so his cat wouldn't feel disoriented.
I Have Not The Time
In prison, drunk for the first time, he told his cellmates he would die in a duel over a woman. Nine months later, a woman wrote him a letter.
The Guest of Honor
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