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The Titanic Sinks!
By: Lauren
The RMS Titanic, also known as the Unsinkable Ship, set sail on her maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. It was leaving Southampton, England to reach New York. This ship was the biggest ship ever and was created by White Star Lines and was constructed by Harland & Wolff. On April 14 a terrible disaster happened. The Titanic hit an iceburg. It was 11:40pm when she grazed the side of the iceburg. Three hours later it sank. Over 1,500 people died on that fatal night. The captain, Edward J. Smith ignored warnings from other ships about iceburg sightings. They tried to turn the ship so it would not hit the iceburg. They turned but not enough. The ship started to sink at bow, making the passangers move to the stern. She split in two and sank bringing everyone in the water down too. Many froze in the -28 degrees Fahrenheit water. About 706 people survived, living to tell this tragic tale.
Disaster Strikes!
By: Megan
Hurricane Katrina was a devestating disaster that struck New Orleans. The death toll for Katrina is in the thousands. An estimated 80% of New Orleans, was under water and in some places the water was twenty feet deep. Katrina wiped out New Orleans and left thousands of children and families stranded on roof tops and in attics seeking shelter. Katrina destroyed everything in its path leaving nothing but tons of water behind. Rescuers were found carrying people and animals into helicopters and buses. Thousands of houses were destroyed from the inside to the outside. There was no shelter, no food, amd no one to care for them. The people who were struck by Katrina were either staying with family nearby or they were brought to the New Orleans SuperDome.
The Great Depression in the United States How Much We Suffered Through!
by: Danielle
On October 1929, the stock market crashed. Many people lost their whole life savings. The New York Stock Exchange by 1933 was less than a fifth as it had been in the beginning, in 1929. Banks failed, factories had to shut down, and business houses closed their doors. Income from farms fell a great 50 percent. By 1932 about one out of every four Americans lost their jobs. The problem was that there was a great difference between the country's productive capacity and the ability of the people to consume. Great changes in the productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond what the U.S. could afford.
The Presidential campaign in 1932 was to discuss the causes and possible remedies of the Great Depession. Herbert Hoover entered the White House only eight months before the stock market crashed. He tried his hardest to get the industry motivated again, but was unsuccesful. The Democratic candidate, Franklin D Roosevelt, was crticizing Hoover and was ready to become president. Hoover had to depend largely on a natural process of recovery so Franklin Roosevelt was ready to use the federal government's authority to make bold experimental remedies. During the U.S. election Franklin Roosevelt had 22,800,000 votes compared to Hoover's 15,700,00. The U.S. was about to enter a new political change. Franklin D. Roosevelt was going to become the new president.
When Roosevelt became president everyone was more optimistic. He had a new program called "the New Deal." The New Deal introduced types of social and economic reform. The New Deal happened really quickly. It brought citzens a interest in government. After Roosevelt took his president's oath, the nation's banking and credit syestem was in great decline. soon many banks closed down.In 1933, millions of Americans had no career. In most cities there were bread lines. many people were searching for food, shelter, and work.
A huge help for the unemployed came from Civilian Works Adminastration. This program was made by Congress to hep men between the ages of 18 and 25. This gave men jobs to work in camps for 30 dollars About 2 million men took part of this program. Some of the work consisted of was planting tree, eliminating stream pollution, conserving coal, and much more.
We suffered through all of these tradgideies and many more, but now its finally over! People have their jobs and no more having to go to bread lines for food. No more having to search desperately for food, clothing, and shelter. Its over!
The Holocaust
By: Taylor
Things happen over time. Unfortunately, sometimes, things that happen are terrible , tradgic, and horrible. The Holocaust was a time that describes all of that! Newspapers all over the world published this story: even in Germany itself.
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The Jewish population at that time was over 566,000 people! As time went by, Hitler was granted emergency powers over Germany due to the Reichstag fire. This happened on February 28, 1933. On March 24, 1933, the Parliament of Germany appoints all dictorial powers to Hitler, and he now became dictator of Germany. On April 4, 1933, the Nazies begin to destroy the Jews bit by bit. They begin on this day in time to boycott all of the Jews' shops and businesses. In September of 1933, the Nazis exclude the Jews from the arts. On September 29, 1933, the Nazis prohibit Jews from purchasing and owning land. On October 4, 1933, Nazis prohibit Jews to become newspaper editors. On November 24, 1933, the Nazis pass a law against the habitual and dangerous criminals (which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics, and the unemployed) to be sent to a Concentration Camp. On January 24, 1934, Jews were prohibited from something else once again. They were prohibited to work at the German Labor Front. On May 17, 1934, Jews were not allowed to have national health insurance. On July 22, 1934, Jews were prohibited from getting legal qualifications. On August 19, 1934, Hitler gets a 90% YES vote from German voters that they approve of his new laws and rules. On May 21, 1935, Jews are prohibited from serving in the military. On June 26, 1935, Nazis pass an abortion rule that women were to have abortions because the Nazis were to prevent hereditary diseases. In Januart of 1937, Nazis pass a law that bans Jews from being professional occupations, including teaching Germans, being accountants, and dentists. They were also denied tax reductions and child allowances. On April 16, 1938, Jews were ordered to register their property and health. On April 9 & 10 of 1938, an event called Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass. This was an event when stores were looted, they burned down schools and synagogues, and thousands of Jews were arrested; hundreds were murdered. On November 25, 1938, all Jewish students were expelled from non Jewish schools. Years pass, and Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin Bunker on April 30, 1945. However, earlier on, all concentration camps were evacuated, and sick people hospitalized.
There's another story that is about another war called World War II (WWII). Even though it was a happy time when the war was ended, but all stories have a sad part to it. So many peole died, and the brave soldiers' spirits still live on today.
By: Lauren, Megan, Danielle, Taylor
WWII was a terrible time for countries all over the world. When the war ended, you could just imagine what everyone felt because they rejoiced, and the sad ones mourned the loss of their loved ones. No matter how anyone felt, they had a large amount of pressure lifted off their shoulders because the war was over.
The United States entered WWII by the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Japan bombed us because they didn't want the United States to get involved in the war in Europe. The Unites States retalliated early in April 18, 1942, with the famous raid by Jimmy Doolittle, when he and his squadron bombed Tokyo. It was a terrible war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes, "December 7, 1941: A day that will live in infamy,". Americans agreed. December 7, 1941 scarred so many people for life; physically and emotionally.
October 14, 2009
The Titanic Sinks The Holocaust in the United States Disaster II!
There are thirteen sections in a newspaper.
Parts of a NewspaperParts of a Newspaper
There are thirteen sections in a newspaper. These sections are very useful because when you are reading the newspaper quickly, and you want to see what happened at the football or basketball game last night, you can simply skip ahead to the sports section. If you're looking for something that is almost halfway across the globe, you would want to look in the international section. If you want to see what's happening business-wise, you'd want to look in the business section. Listed below are the sections in a newspaper and examples of what you can find.
1. International: The international section of a newspaper tells you about news in different continents, such as Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
2. Washington: Washington's section is about things that are going on in our nation's capital
3. The New York Region: The New York Region's section is based on things that are happening in New York and the states surrounding it. For example, New Jersey and Connecticut.
4. Business: The business section is for things that are happening business-wise. For example, the business section might contain media and advertising, world business, the economy of the country that you live in, the stock markets, company researches, mutual funds, and stock portfolios.
5. Technology: The technology section contains things that are going in and out of style in the technology world, things that are coming out, and things that have been out, but they're coming back in style.
6. Science: The science section in a newspaper contains things that are happening in our medical world today. For example: a science section in a newspaper might contain what's happening in outer space, and it might contain things that are happening in and around our environment.
7. Health: The health section in a newspaper would usually contain the things that are happning to a modern day person's health. For example: they might have come out with a new medicine that could clear the human race totally of allergies. In a health section, there might be news containing things about fitness and nutrition, new health care policies, and mental health and behavior.
8. Sports: In a sports section, you may find out about last night's baseball, basketball, and football game. That's the second thing besides asking your buddies down at the pizza parlor. It may also tell you about a player on a team that might have gotten injured and cannot play. In a sports section, you can find out things about basketball, professional basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, professional football, and different sports that maybe you'd want to look for.
9. Education: The thing that a student favors the most: the education section. In the education section you might be able to find out the overall average for students in a partucular school, and maybe even a couple of awards that a student won for the school that they attend, or doing something that would help their school do better.
10. Weather: In a weather section, you can find the weather, where ever you may need to know.
11. Obituaries: In an obitary, you cn find out about people who passed on recently, and people think that their death should be mentioned to the community. When you would go to this section in a newspaper, you can most likely find a picture about someone and a short biography.
12. The cover page story: In this section, you'd just find the story that has the cover page has on it. It has more detail, and is usually found in the first few pages in the newspaper.
13. Table of contents: This is the most important part of a newspaper. This part of the newspaper shows where to find all of these newspaper sections. Without it, reading the newspaper would take hours to read!
As you can see, There are many sections to a newspaper. They all play an important part, and when they act together, they make a newspaper.
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Quotation Marks - The OWL at PurdueHow to Use Quotation Marks
Using Quotation Marks
The primary function of quotation marks is to set off and represent exact language (either spoken or written) that has come from somebody else. The quotation mark is also used to designate speech acts in fiction and sometimes poetry. Since you will most often use them when working with outside sources, successful use of quotation marks is a practical defense against accidental plagiarism and an excellent practice in academic honesty. The following rules of quotation mark use are the standard in the United States, although it may be of interest that usage rules for this punctuation do vary in other countries.
The following covers the basic use of quotation marks. For details and exceptions consult the separate sections of this guide.
Direct Quotations
Direct quotations involve incorporating another person's exact words into your own writing.
1. Quotation marks always come in pairs. Do not open a quotation and fail to close it at the end of the quoted material
2. Capitalize the first letter of a direct quote when the quoted material is a complete sentence.
Mr. Johnson, who was working in his field that morning, said, "The alien spaceship appeared right before my own two eyes."3. Do not use a capital letter when the quoted material is a fragment or only a piece of the original material's complete sentence.
Although Mr. Johnson has seen odd happenings on the farm, he stated that the spaceship "certainly takes the cake" when it comes to unexplainable activity.4. If a direct quotation is interrupted mid-sentence, do not capitalize the second part of the quotation.
"I didn't see an actual alien being," Mr. Johnson said, "but I sure wish I had."5. In all the examples above, note how the period or comma punctuation always comes before the final quotation mark. It is important to also realize that when you are using MLA or some other form of documentation, this punctuation rule may change.
When quoting text with a spelling or grammar error, you should transcribe the error exactly in your own text. However, also insert the term sic in italics directly after the mistake, and enclose it in brackets. Sic is from the Latin, and translates to "thus," "so," or "just as that." The word tells the reader that your quote is an exact reproduction of what you found, and the error is not your own.
Mr. Johnson says of the experience, "it's made me reconsider the existence of extraterestials [sic]."6. Quotations are most effective if you use them sparingly and keep them relatively short. Too many quotations in a research paper will get you accused of not producing original thought or material (they may also bore a reader who wants to know primarily what YOU have to say on the subject).
Indirect Quotations
Indirect quotations are not exact wordings but rather rephrasings or summaries of another person's words. In this case, it is not necessary to use quotation marks. However, indirect quotations still require proper citations, and you will be commiting plagiarism if you fail to do so.
Mr. Johnson, a local farmer, reported last night that he saw an alien spaceship on his own property.Many writers struggle with when to use direct quotations versus indirect quotations. Use the following tips to guide you in your choice.
Use direct quotations when the source material uses language that is particularly striking or notable. Do not rob such language of its power by altering it.
Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the end of slavery was important and of great hope to millions of slaves done horribly wrong.The above should never stand in for:
Martin Luther King Jr. said of the Emancipation Proclamation, "This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice."Use an indirect quotation (or paraphrase) when you merely need to summarize key incidents or details of the text.Use direct quotations when the author you are quoting has coined a term unique to their research and relevant within your own paper.
When to use direct quotes versus indirect quotes is ultimately a choice you'll learn a feeling for with experience. However, always try to have a sense for why you've chosen your quote. In other words, never put quotes in your paper simply because your teacher says, "You must use quotes."
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David Bowie (cunt.) Of Which This is the Perfect Companion including Transcript but not as Much Cocaine Psychosis as the Real Thing: The Dick Cavett Show
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Sigma Kid Marla Feldstein saw Dick Cavett get out of a car in downtown Philadelphia and screamed at him, "Do a show on Bowie!" Cavett allegedly turned and mumbled "OK."
On 2 November 1974 Marla and her crew attended the filming of the Dick Cavett Show in New York…. "He was so nervous, we kept clapping at everything to make him feel better. He does about an hour and sings Young American, 1984, Can You Hear Me and Footstompin'."
The show was broadcast on 4 December 1974 by NBC in America. Following an introduction from the show's host, David performed "1984" and "Young Americans." This was followed by an interview with Dick Cavett and then David performed "Footstompin'." The other number - "Can You Hear Me" - was not televised.
DC: He burst on the scene a few years ago in a dazzling explosion of bizarre costumes, make-up and glitter with an opus called the Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars – if the audience would hold for a minute, I’m explaining this for the squarejohns at home. He’s the only person I know who has appeared the same year on the best dressed men list and the worst dressed woman list… someone’s idea of a joke! Rumours and questions have arisen about David such as – Who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Is he a creature of a foreign power? Is he a creep? Is he dangerous? Is he smart? Dumb? Nice to his parents? Real? Put on? Crazy? Sane? Man? Woman? Robot? What is this…? His fans have seen him do almost anything but sit and talk which they will see tonight. It will be a first for them. In this concert tour, here is still another David Bowie. Ladies and gentlemen… David Bowie!
1984
Young Americans
DC: We have a very vocal group here tonight. Not only you, but the people out there. It's strange to see you off your feet like this. Welcome, nice to see you.
DB: Thank you.
DC: So, you've got a lot of explaining to do.
DB: Yes.
DC: I feel like interviewing...I almost feel like I should interview you like that character that Peter Cook does. You know, "What is all this prancing about the stage and trappings and all of that?" But you don't have the trappings that you've had in the past, you're a little more conventional.
DB: Yeah, at this moment.
DC: What happened?
DB: We did the Diamond Dogs tour and took it from New York to Los Angeles and I felt that that was enough, really. Rather than come back with the same thing, I wanted to give myself an opportunity just to work with the band.
DC: Yeah. So a lot of the glitter is gone that we associate with you and you've got an entirely new person now. Is the offstage Bowie likely to surprise people? I've had the weirdest reactions from people who know you're going to be on. Some of them say that they'd be scared to sit and talk with you, some people said that you would bite my neck, a very peculiar kind of thing.
DB: It's what you want really, isn’t it? And what do you think I'm like?
DC: Well, I've only met you over the phone and a little bit backstage and to me you seem like, I hope this doesn't insult you, a waiting actor.
DB: That's right, that's very good.
DC: I mean… what are you drawing? (Cavett comments on David playing with his cane).
DB: It’s therapeutic.
DC: Some people thought… there’s a lady who said "I don't know if I'd want to meet him, he would make me very nervous. I have a feeling he's into black magic and that sort of thing." And other people see you as just a very skilful performer who changes from time to time from one thing to another.
DB: Yeah. Well, both of that is… I'm a person of diverse interests, but I’m not really very academic but I glit from one thing to another a lot.
DC: Glit?
DB: It's like flit, but it's the Seventies version.
DC: One letter later in the alphabet. This incredible picture (Cavett shows the album cover of "Diamond Dogs") it's very striking the first time you see it. The first time this album appeared in a record store window, I could see it actually stopping traffic on the sidewalk. This is the picture that you sent to the draft board obviously.
DB: Ha ha. I’ve only just got that.
DC: How did that come about, that whole idea and that very painting?
DB: Let me see. Well, it's an artist from Belgium called Guy Peellaert, who did a book called "Rock Dreams" that I nicked. Well, I didn't nick the book, but I saw the book at Mick Jagger's house and I nicked the idea of doing a cover.
DC: What does nicked mean?
DB: Oh, stolen.
DC: Stole the idea. Does this make you nervous, to sit without your band and everything just to chat a little bit?
DB: Um... oh, let's carry on talking. Don't ask me that. Otherwise I'll wonder, you see. I'd rather not know if I'm nervous until...
DC: Okay, I won't worry about that. Where's the kick for you David in performing… in performance when you're onstage?
DB: That's it. Complete, really.
DC: The being there?
DB: Yeah.
DC: The entrance… I can imagine that it would be a very exciting profession. I mean to stand there with that. There are people in the world who've never stood on a stage – those of us who have forget this - I mean to stand on a giant stage like that, with a band behind you. At rehearsal today I stood in for you, I mean the feeling of standing there with that sound coming behind you is very exhilarating.
DB: An incredible feeling and I got a lot of fulfilment from working in productions like Diamond Dogs or the Ziggy Stardust. But it was one of putting together lots of bits and pieces, and loose ends, and directing the whole thing and remembering a thousand things at once. So that was one kind of fulfilment. But now that I'm working with just a band and singing, which is something I haven't done for years, just stand and sing my songs. I'm finding a new kind of fulfilment. I'll go back to doing productions in...
DC: You will?
DB: Oh, yeah. I just wanted to go out and sing my songs as a singer-songwriter for a bit and then…
DC: We have to take a break right now for a message but we’ll be back, back, back, back. Stay with us.
DC: David, what kind of student were you in school?
DB: As I say, not very academic, I suppose I was considered arty.
DC: Arty?
DB: Yeah.
DC: Did you go through college or to college?
DB: Yeah, I went to a technical college near London and had an art course for people from twelve upwards who couldn't do anything else much like maths or physics or something, so I took art.
DC: You know that Jagger studied economics?
DB: Yes.
DC: And I mentioned that once when he was on and some of his fans were disappointed to hear that. He was at the London School Of Economics and it ties into something he said in an interview he did with William Burroughs, which I thought was interesting if it's in fact true.
DB: Oh, don't believe it!
DC: Everything ties in with something else you said, which is, “Don't ask me any questions because I'll say something different every time." But taking a chance here, taking a stab in the light, you said that there were lives of the rock stars who are really not as strange as the lives of their fans. It's an interesting point that the fans sort of envy the stars, but in effect the stars would conventionalise and envy the fans. It strikes me as odd the idea that, you know, that fans are out shoving, I don't know, nutmeg under their cuticles or something and trying to be really freaky, and you and Jagger are sitting around discussing economics before the Anschluss and Benelux nations or something. Am I exaggerating?
DB: No. He speaks economics and I don't understand him.
DC: But is this in fact true that the… what is your private life like?
DB: I want to… can I take this off? (David takes off his coat).
DC: Oh yeah, do.
DB: Thank you. Alright. What I meant is that when I first started, I could get out and about a bit and I used to go to clubs and dance. You know, that was quite easy and I sorted out what I wanted to wear and what I wanted to do. But later on when things became slightly cocooned.
DC: Slightly what?
DB: Cocooned. I was kind of, you know, in there somewhere. I found that I was seeing what everybody else was wearing when they used to come to the shows. And I thought they’re kind of out of it a bit. So, it ends up that I kind of get influenced by people that come to see me. I mean, canes, you see. I saw a person with a cane once, of course but then someone started bringing them to the gigs and I really like them, so I started using one. So it wasn't me, it was them.
DC: You've been influenced by your audience in your style?
DB: Yeah, I think you are a lot.
DC: How do you dream up your latest manifestation? You know what I mean? Do you…?
DB: Which one particularly?
DC: In any case. Do you sit with a sketchpad? Do you work from your own dreams? Do you have visions?
DB: No, I travel. I'm in a very lucky position of not wanting to fly so I take a ship or train or something.
DC: You won't fly?
DB: No.
DC: I read that you took the Trans-Siberian railway somewhere. That's a long way.
DB: Yeah, it was right through Russia. From Lhotka through to Moscow and from Moscow, Warsaw, East Berlin - got chucked off there, threatened to send back to Moscow.
DC: Why won't you fly?
DB: It scares me, you know.
DC: Afraid that the plane will come down when it isn't supposed to?
DB: I don't like the feeling of going up. It always feels like something running very fast and then like going to the edge of a cliff and jumping and hoping it will get to the other side.
DC: I like that though.
DB: Well, it should be like if it just goes up like that, like a saucer.
DC: Why do rock stars tend to have premonitions of doom? It seems to be a theme in their work and in their lives.
DB: Ah, cause they're pretty nutty to be doing it in the first place anyway. You know, they’ve got very tangled minds, very messed up people.
DC: Do you ever try to picture yourself at sixty?
DB: Oh, no!
DC: Somebody said the idea of a reunion of the Beatles in their seventies when they come tottering out on the stage. Someone holds a guitar up in front of them while they pluck it. What… this is a rather personal question, is that your real hair colour?
DB: Of course it isn't. I've never said it. No, I'm a blonde, I’m a blonde, I’m a blonde.
DC: When you walk around New York and a hardhat says, "Hey sweetheart…"
DB: I drive around New York!
DC: Good idea. What do your parents do for a living?
DB: Well, my father's dead and my mother has a small flat and I think she's got a day job.
DC: Does she have trouble explaining you to the neighbours who say, "Are you any relation to that?”
DB: Ah, I think she pretends I'm not hers. No, she's…she doesn't talk much, you know... she doesn't... I don't think we really... we were never that close particularly. We have an understanding.
DC: Is that true that your real name is Maniptuous Beatlegas?
DB: Yeah!
DC: Is it really? You didn't want that revealed?
DB: I was waiting for you to reveal it.
DC: Oh, I'm sorry if you didn't want that out, but... What is black-noise?
DB: Black-noise?
DC: Yeah.
DB: Black-noise is something that Burroughs got very interested in. It's a... the one facet of black-noise is that everything… like a glass if an opera singer hits a particular note, the vibrations are that of the metabolism of the glass and it cracks it, yeah? So a black-noise is the register within which you can crack a city or people or... it's a new control bomb. It's a noise-bomb, in fact, which can destroy... why do you ask that?
DC: I mean is it a real thing? Is it something...?
DB: Oh yeah, it is. It was invented in France.
DC: Could a tyrant use this to...?
DB: Well, until last year you could buy the patent for it in the French patent-office for about the equivalent of three, four dollars.
DC: And it would wipe out a...
DB: It depends how much money you put into it. I mean, a small one could probably kill about half the people here. But a big one could destroy a city or even more. I mean...
DC: It's a weird idea, isn't it?
DB: Well, it's not my idea, so...
DC: Let's not give the instructions on how to do it. Can you recommend a good book to your fans?
DB: This week? Apart from yours?
DC: Oh, do I have a book out?
DB: Yeah. Oh no, I walked into that.
DC: I wondered if you... the last thing I read you said that Kerouac was important to you. But that's a long time back.
DB: I daren’t say I’m reading Machiavelli though.
DC: You're reading Machiavelli?
DB: No! What am I reading at the moment?
DC: What would we find on your coffee-table, in your apartment in...?
DB: At the moment mainly pictures. I bought Diane Arbus' book of photographs. A photographer that I like very much.
DC: Could I ever do a walk-on in your show. I've got to know what it feels like to stand on stage in a big production thing like that.
DB: In a production? Well, if I had a part for you, yeah.
DC: Yeah. Maybe if I were to bring out a cup of tea and a good book.
DB: If it's your book.
DC: Oh, I forgot about that. You do mime...?
DB: Are you going to ask me about my book?
DC: You have a book?
DB: Well, funnily enough...
DC: A book coming?
DB: Yes. I'm writing a novel.
DC: You are?
DB: Yeah, based on the Trans-Siberian Express.
DC: Oh, really?
DB: Uh-hum. Now you can ask me the next one.
DC: I'm glad to know that. How do you say your wife’s name? I've seen it printed Angels and Angela. Which is the typo?
DB: Angela... Angie.
DC: Her real name is Angela?
DB: It's Angela.
DC: Is she a model?
DB: Is she what?
DC: Is she a model or an actress or... I saw a really attractive picture of her.
DB: No. She was an intellectual that went to school in Switzerland and has a vast capacity for knowledge and runs around and does theses on everything.
DC: Yeah. And how do you say your son’s name?
DB: Zowie.
DC: Your son's name is Zowie Bowie?
DB: Yeah.
DC: Is it true that Frank Zappa has a child named Moon Unit?
DB: Yes.
DC: Can you imagine? Growing up… kids in a tough neighbourhood, "Hey Moon Unit!" We will take a break here and we’ll be right back.
DC: You know somewhere someone is writing a learned paper in a university called something like... Jagger and Bowie prophets of a pluralistic society.
DB: Zzzzzzzzzz…
DC: Prophets of doom. Do you read this stuff? You see critics write very elaborate intellectual analyses of your work and other peoples. Does this put you to sleep?
DB: Um… the bad ones, I always read the good ones.
DC: Yeah. Do you want to be understood? You know what I mean. Like Ziggy Stardust was...?
DB: There's absolutely nothing to understand. I mean...
DC: … was concerned with famine in the world and so on and prophecies of the world running out of food...
DB: Oh dear. I'm a storyteller and a storywriter and I decided that I preferred to enact a lot of the material I was writing, rather than perform it as myself. At this moment I am performing as myself but I will continue in the future, after I've done what I wish to do at the moment, return back to writing stories and I will enact them again and I don't care what anybody says. I like doing it and it's what I shall continue to do.
DC: Oh, I'm not stopping you.
DB: No, I just... you know, it's not... nothing that I do is on any kind of intellectual slant.
DC: You got no mission?
DB: No, it's just... oh...
DC: Can you do anything about they’re ripping London apart? I've been there about seven times - we talked about this the other night – and you told me the appalling news that they've torn down Whistler's House, the artist. Is Buckingham Palace a McDonald’s stand yet? I can't believe what they're doing. Do you have a lot of influence...?
DB: Not since I bought it.
DC: I was going to say you have influence and money. Can't you...?
DB: No, you can't do... no one has any influence. I mean everything has been sectioned off into separate pieces of property and no doubt now that the socialist government has nationalised or is going to nationalise ground, more of it will come down and...
DC: What do you think of...?
DB: I don't know. I haven't made any decision on it ‘cause I know a lot of families that need houses. As much as I like a lot of the architecture, you know. I don't know... I can't general... oh don't ask me about politics and, I mean, what do I know?
DC: Did I say politics?
DB: But that's what it will become you see, because I mean it's... it's all politics... motivation of finance, it's politics isn't it?
DC: Okay. You're going to do another number. However, if you do it now it’ll be interrupted by a commercial which will be appalling. So, why don't we take a break? We’ll be right back and thank you for coming here.
DB: It's been a great pleasure. Thank you.
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