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Fred Astaire was a song and dance man maybe the best ever. Edwardo was a song and dance man, or at least he tried to be a song man. He had the beginnings of a small rock band. He played lead guitar but probably his thing was more the blues. Mostly the song and dance men were a pretty sorry lot - was my opinion. They might be great artists and I still listen to them everyday, but never thought them much as story tellers. I just like the music and don't pay much attention to the lyrics. Edward was different. He was a thinker. I suppose maybe it could be said that he was my Pan. Pan was hybrid - part human part goat. Edwardo was a triple Taurus.
Assuming I could now correlate every of my major characters to some Greek pantheon of gods, the problem would have been that they may not act the part. Or it might be said they felt and looked like the parts to me, with the hippy dress and accoutrements, but didn't necessarily think like gods. All in all, I thought it was a pretty good cast of characters, some of whom stayed around for awhile, some that left for good, and some that constantly came and went.
The hippies were looking for a universal humanity. Trouble was it was a Pan movement, the wandering minstrel and peg-leg sailor. The real agenda, as making anything economically viable, was never on the radar, aside from some small attempts at barter and bead making. But that is why I liked Wherebe's idea of the art and craft studios as economic entities. So part of the study was economics.
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