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If you didn’t already click the hyperlink in today’s Monday Morning Memo, you’re going to have a second chance at the bottom of this rabbit hole. And you’re going to want to do it, too, because you’re going to want to see some more of these candid iPhone videos of the 17 Strangers that formed the Musicians Round Table of 2011. If memory serves, this song was written by Trisha Sylvestre, a self-described fruit stand operator in Canada. She’s also a wife and a Mom and the slightly self-conscious woman closest to the camera in the Wizard Academy Dancers video. She was given a maximum of 20 minutes to write the lyrics to the song below. Me like it. You like it, too? This is good. Patrick Sullivan, a vitamin salesman, is lead singer. The music to Trisha’s lyrics was written by J.D. Campbell, the bass player at the left of the screen. The 17 Strangers were composed of 4 amateur writers and 13 amateur musicians.

Always click the photograph on a rabbit hole page to go one level deeper. If this is your first rabbit hole visit, click the photo of the Austin City Limit sign and see what happens. But watch this video first. Yo dog. – Indy

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“‘It’s okay,’ she says, and you know you should leave it there – it’s fine, leave it alone, but some crazy engine inside you won’t let you stop; ‘I’m sorry your mom is a bigot. I’m sorry Bix has to have a girlfriend from Texas. I’m sorry I’m an asshole. I’m sorry I make you nervous because I tried to kill myself. I’m sorry to get in the way of your nice afternoon….’ Your throat tightens up and your eyes get wet as you watch their faces go from stony to sad, and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there – a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, Good, they’ll forgive you, they won’t desert you, and the question is, which one is really ‘you,’ the one saying and doing whatever it is, or the one watching?”

- Jennifer Egan, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," p. 191, winner of the Pulitzer prize

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