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Back Talking Animals Save as PDF
Chapters (47)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraphs
  5. THE FIVE BURROWS
  6. 1.
  7. UTOPIA OF RULES
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  10. 4.
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  12. 6.
  13. 7.
  14. ENCLOSURE
  15. 8.
  16. 9.
  17. HORSE AND SPARROWS
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  23. 15.
  24. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
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  30. 21.
  31. 22.
  32. BENEATH THE BEACH
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  36. 26.
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  38. 28.
  39. 29.
  40. 30.
  41. 31.
  42. SARDINES
  43. 32.
  44. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  45. Also by Joni Murphy
  46. A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  47. Newsletter Sign-up

There was a photo of the musician, serious and fluffy, standing on the beach surrounded by homemade instruments. Ink-green seaweed twisted behind in this portrait of an artist as an eccentric sea dog. Kombu’s outlook was dark, mystical, and charged with discordant romance. He was famed for playing both above and below the surface of the sea.

The interviewer asked: How did you come to music?