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“(Soundbite of music) MILES: For all his obstruce theorizing and articles and liner notes in his Web site, there's an earthy appeal that Hassell's montages that reminds me that he was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1937.”

NPR: Jon Hassell Brings World Fusion To 'The Moon'

“Biographers undertaking to delineate the characters of great men search diligently into the most obstruce turn of life, portraying in lucid colors, each and every incident compatible with nature, leaving nothing for the mind to conjecture.”

Senior Oration of Edward T. Sykes, [1858]