9. Gift
We open \u201cgift\u201d with a definition: \u201cit is a displacement outside (or deep inside?) the realm of exchange that operates mysteriously, as distinct from \u2018present\u2019 it comes out of nowhere.\u201d What we find inside is Charlie Haden and Kenny Barron\u2019s \u201cNight and the City,\u201d Lewis Hyde on \u201cLucky Find,\u201d Pauline theology, the moor behind the Bronte\u2019s house, Ted Berrigan, Augustine, the gift of the knife, Frost\u2019s \u201cThe Gift Outright,\u201d a reading from an unpublished ms. by Peter Lamborn Wilson on the Yazidi religion, Zeus and Hermes-Thoth, John Clare, Jane\u2019s Addiction\u2019s Perry Farrell\u2019s \u201cThe Gift\u201d (the film), the Sabbath, a mantra of Brahmin bathing, the philosopher C.S. Pierce and a whiff of Vladimir Nabakov\u2019s novel THE GIFT. This podcast ends with the word \u201cventilator,\u201d or what we need now.