Galesburg, Illinois+

Galesburg, Illinois+ is a 2016 exhibition by Stephen Prina.

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	Song	Version		Notes
1.	We'll Roll Back the Prices	Carl Sandburg	1957	"The song was written by some wags in the Office of Price Administration during World War II, said Sandburg, and he thought that it was mighty timely now."
2.	Jay Gould's Daughter	Carl Sandburg	1957
3.	Harbour Lights	Frances Langford	1937
4.	It's Too Late	Carole King	1971
5.	Roll the Old Chariot
6.				The lyrics are from the New York Times' "Quotation of the Day"
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Track six

Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day
April 25, 2015	I am always hungry.
April 26, 2015	It was like being on a boat in heavy seas.
April 28, 2015	This is not what the family asked for, today of all days. For us to come out of the burial and walk into this is absolutely inexcusable.
May 1, 2015	This isn't the way you want to make history. When a judge goes home and he keeps thinking, over and over, that something's wrong, something is usually wrong.
May 5, 2015	I grew up without a dad. I grew up sometimes lost and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of the other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.
May 7, 2015	This is our country, just like anyone else’s country.
May 8, 2015	My usual morning route has become a big adventure for me. Now, in my taxi we discuss paintings and artworks.
May 9, 2015	This man did it. He said it. How many times does a man have to confess before someone believes him?
May 11, 2015	There are thousands of women who are working in this, but no one asking: ‘What’s happening to you? How do you feel?’ We just work and work.
May 12, 2015	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
May 13, 2015	You told me that you believed in me, and that was the day I decided to dedicate my childhood to jazz.
May 14, 2015	The first bump, you didn’t know what it was, except that it was something strong. The second, you knew something was wrong. And the third, forget about it, now you’re praying.
May 15, 2015	I don’t want to be too overdramatic, but if these people aren’t treated and brought to shore soon, we are going to have a boat full of corpses.
May 16, 2015	They didn’t know about the blues. They had been taught that the blues was the bottom of the totem pole, done by slaves, and they didn’t want to think along those lines.
May 20, 2015	He said, ‘Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.’ I took that to heart. I said, ‘O.K., then that’s what I’m going to do.’
May 21, 2015	Who should we contact in case you become a martyr?
May 22, 2015	Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine he’s still alive.
May 24, 2015	Everything to do with technology is a window to the outside world, and there is nothing out there that our young people don’t know about.
May 25, 2015	She can’t find a full-time job. She’s waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for an interview right now.
	It’s half the battle — to visualize they can go to college.
	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
	Sir, I’m just calling you to say that we’re going to need you to come to your door and open it for us, or we’re going to have to kick it in.
	Prison is not four walls. Outside, people did not have any mercy. People would call you names, especially for a woman there was a lot of shame.
	Our side isn’t used to being asked for that kind of money. If you asked them to put up $100 million for a hospital wing, they’d be the first in line.
	I fell on the ground. It shocks you. It hurts you. It shivers your body.
	We have advised teachers not to go back. They are subject to attacks.
	Sell your house; don't sell this horse.
	I will have the last laugh.
	Now the government is belatedly trying to mend the fence after the cow had already been stolen.
	Five-year-olds need to play and color. They need to go out and sing songs.
	It sets up a system where first there’s the punishment, and then there’s the opportunity to go to court for trial.
	There are dead fish in my living room.
	He really wasn’t raised into the best society. We drank a lot, we partied a lot. His life was into turmoil.
	The myth of Magna Carta lies at the whole origin of our perception of who we are as an English-speaking people, freedom-loving people who’ve lived with a degree of liberty and under a rule of law for 800 years. It’s a load of tripe, of course. But it’s a very useful myth.
	Where does it stop? Does that mean you own the cloud, too?
	I had no idea that years later, she would match the body with the soul.
	This is America. I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one.
	The church must introduce in its teaching the sin against the environment. The ecological sin.
	Science is like a compass. It can tell us where north is, but it can’t tell us if we want to go north. That’s where our morality comes in.
	What lit the fire under this was the tragic death of my friend and his eight parishioners. It took my buddy’s death to get me to do this. I should feel ashamed of myself.
	There is no more country.
	All of us have a natural firewall in our brain that keeps us from bad ideas. They look for weaknesses in the wall, and then they attack.
	I feel like a full citizen for the first time in my life. And I feel that people that still hate no longer have the government backing them up.
	While most humans wish to die a painless death, many do not have that good fortune.
	This tsunami is coming.
	So many people are leaving you can’t even find suitcases.
	We’ve reached our limit. This is not a society of beggars.
	Retribution is a valid societal interest.
	There are no buyers, only sellers.
	We used to carry knives. Now we have to carry keys.
	I am so sick and tired of all this. It’s such crazy theater.
	I don’t think any one of us could have imagined that this could have been a better toy store.
	You expect this kind of thing at war, but not here, and they never had a chance to fight back.
	When your contract is over, they send you home, saying they’ve transferred the money. You get home, and there is nothing there.
	Summary execution, vigilantism, overzealous defense, call it what you will. This boils down just the same to a case of murder at sea and a question of why it’s allowed to happen.
	It is sort of like a wedding. You’ve spent all this time planning your wedding day, and finally you’re getting to see someone walk down the aisle. Now, you have the rest of your life together.
	It is designed to break a man’s will to live.
	At least they listened to us. We’re breathing little by little.
	I asked to use his needle and he said, ‘Hey, I’ve got hep B and C.’ And at the time it didn’t really matter to me. The desire to get high was just so great.
	He was by himself, he sat by himself, and the first two people he shot were right in front of him.
	You belong to the captain. So he can sell you if he wants.
	Best of all, it’s not a plan, it’s not a sketch, it’s not a dream, it’s not a vision. It is actually happening.
	The question is whether we are in a new Gilded Age or well beyond it — to a Platinum Age.
	I didn’t like him, but I had to like him.
	The word ‘tragic’ would be fair.
	It seems she’ll stay in the sea. I think she would like that.
	It’s not the end of the world; she didn’t give away the crown jewels. But this is not how things are supposed to be done.
	It’s crazy. Six years ago, this would not have happened, but now that is the landscape we are in.
	There’s always a sense things can boil over, but there’s a sense of maturity here.