"If you understood everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
"Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government." - Lenny Bruce
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

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Picture Me with a Big Light Bulb over my Head
So I'm listening to Ry Cooder's "Chicken Skin Music" CD in the truck this morning, zipping along the viaduct (why not?) when his version of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" comes on, replete with lovely conjunto accordian (which is alternatively spelled "accordion", go figure).
And part of the lyrics go like this:

Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown

And it hits me-this is where Ken Kesey got the title for "Sometimes a Great Notion", which clicks even louder in my head when I remember that there is a big drowning scene. I'd always assumed Kesey had got it from Shakespeare, whenever I thought about it at all. Figuring things out is cool.