The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from other sources and melds them into new stories, ... What David Dodd has done is the detective work in tracing where those fragments came from.

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The Grateful Dead remains as it always has -- in favor of tape trading.

There's crew and there's security guards, and the janitors at the Oakland Coliseum or whatever. They're going to have a little less work.