QotD: Greil Marcus on "A Mole In The Ground"

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Greil Marcus in his book "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century" reflects on the traditional American ballad "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground" and its rendering by Bascom Lamar Lunsford:

Now what the singer wants is obvious, and almost impossible to comprehend. He wants to be delivered from his life and to be changed into a

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У меня с этим "the world is nothing, a demand to be next to nothing and yet it is comforting" ассоциируется, извините, фраза из анекдота "ящик водки и всех обратно".