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the sound of an Irish fiddle
played out of sight in the woods
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the lights of the dance halls in Ireland
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the Grateful Dead and the community that they created around their music
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Carson McCullers writing in a wheelchair
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A lifetime of battling interference
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They made no move to join the gathering.
But stood there ominously, as if issuing an unspoken warning.
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It was Dulles who personally ran Operation Mockingbird,
the CIA's program to control American Media
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from the woods I thought I heard the music of The Big Bopper,
Buddy Holly, and Richie Valens
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the four agents looked at the crowd of artists facing them