"I learned to play guitar on this song"

From a Roger Ebert tweet:

Paul Simon invites a Toronto fan onstage to play his guitar. She is *so* happy--and pretty good, too.
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Christopher Hitchens on finding your own voice

In this Vanity Fair article Christopher Hitchens notes that
"When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen."
And,

To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: “How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk?” That had its duly woeful effect.

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