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Mondo Cool: Origin of the Species, Its Rise, Demise and Future

July 1, 1989 by: D. Eric Bookhardt

"As soon as a sentiment rises to the tonality of fire, as soon as it becomes exposed in its violence to the metaphysics of fire, one can be sure that it will become charged with opposites."

-Gaston Bachetard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire

 

"Did you ever stand and shiver just because you were looking at a river?"

-Ramblin' Jack Elliott, 912 Greens

 

Cool. Be cool. Cool it. Chill out.

Cool is a state of being. Some things are cool an...

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