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

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Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day	Date	New York Times Quotation of the Day
January 1, 2015	There’s no doubt in my mind that if he had the opportunity to kill me, he would.	April 25, 2015	I am always hungry.
January 8, 2015	This was a maximum-impact attack. They did this to shock the public, and in that sense they succeeded.	April 26, 2015	It was like being on a boat in heavy seas.
January 11, 2015	When you’re inside the water, you shouldn’t be thinking about anything, not Ebola, not nothing, just the waves.	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.
January 13, 2015	Leaving would be caving into terrorism. If we leave, the terrorists win.	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.
January 17, 2015	No freedom should be abandoned.	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.
January 19, 2015	I don’t think the other teams expected us to be as tough as we were, and fast and strong and aggressive.	May 7, 2015	This is our country, just like anyone else’s country.
January 21, 2015	Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?	May 8, 2015	My usual morning route has become a big adventure for me. Now, in my taxi we discuss paintings and artworks.
March 21, 2015	Well, I guess the question is, which one?	May 9, 2015	This man did it. He said it. How many times does a man have to confess before someone believes him?
January 24, 2015	It was pure illusion that peace could be achieved now. None of the sides has yet achieved its goals. The only real surprise is that the fighting started in the winter instead of the spring.	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.
January 25, 2015	The nets go straight out of the bag into the sea. That’s why the incidence for malaria here is so high. The people don’t use the mosquito nets for mosquitoes. They use them to fish.	May 12, 2015	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
January 26, 2015	The middle has basically stayed the same; it hasn’t improved. You’ve got an iPhone now and a better TV, but your median income hasn’t changed. What’s really changed is the penthouse has become supernice.	May 13, 2015	You told me that you believed in me, and that was the day I decided to dedicate my childhood to jazz.
January 27, 2015	People have to make smart decisions from this point on. It is not business as usual.	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.
January 29, 2015	You’ve got to look that parent in the eye and demonstrate through actions, not words, that you are doing things to create a better, safer environment for their child.	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.
January 30, 2015	If one thing is lacking, O.K. If there are no automobile parts, we’ll see. Food, that’s problematic. But health care, that’s more problematic. Where will it end?	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.
January 31, 2015	I said, ‘I’d rather you miss an entire semester than you get the shot.’	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.’
February 5, 2015	The thing’s dinging, red lights are flashing, it’s going off. I just remember going, ‘Hurry up.’ I just knew she was going to back up — never in my wildest dreams did I think she’d go forward.	May 21, 2015	Who should we contact in case you become a martyr?
February 6, 2015	They started with the shootings; then came the beheadings.	May 22, 2015	Sometimes I close my eyes and imagine he’s still alive.
February 9, 2015	You can’t keep treating normal people with traffic tickets like felons. I live a normal life. I have a son. I’m not a bad person.	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.
February 12, 2015	There is a tendency to say ‘This is a nice place, these eruptions of violence don’t belong here.’ And yet here we are. This is, in all of the heartbreak and violence and sadness, where we are.	May 25, 2015	She can’t find a full-time job. She’s waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for an interview right now.
February 14, 2015	I had those normal jitters you have when you are going to say your vows. All of that was just crushed.	May 26, 2015	It’s half the battle — to visualize they can go to college.
February 16, 2015	They would say, ‘Grandpa, I don’t want to die young,’ and I held them, and they were shaking, and I looked in their eyes, and they were afraid. Now we are hoping.	May 12, 2015	The magnitude of falsity, conservatively measured, is enormous.
February 18, 2015	I felt like my world crashed a little bit.	May 28, 2015	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.
February 19, 2015	You have to understand, I am in pain. My son is gone.	May 29, 2015	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.
February 20, 2015	If I talk to him for an hour, they undo him in two hours.	May 31, 2015	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.
February 21, 2015	When is a deal not really a deal? When it kicks the can down the road and when no one can agree on what was agreed.	June 1, 2015	I fell on the ground. It shocks you. It hurts you. It shivers your body.
		June 4, 2015	We have advised teachers not to go back. They are subject to attacks.
		June 5, 2015	Sell your house; don't sell this horse.
		June 8, 2015	I will have the last laugh.
		June 9, 2015	Now the government is belatedly trying to mend the fence after the cow had already been stolen.
		June 10, 2015	Five-year-olds need to play and color. They need to go out and sing songs.
		June 11, 2015	It sets up a system where first there’s the punishment, and then there’s the opportunity to go to court for trial.
		June 12, 2015	There are dead fish in my living room.
		June 13, 2015	He really wasn’t raised into the best society. We drank a lot, we partied a lot. His life was into turmoil.
		June 15, 2015	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.
		June 16, 2015	Where does it stop? Does that mean you own the cloud, too?
		June 17, 2015	I had no idea that years later, she would match the body with the soul.
		June 18, 2015	This is America. I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one.
		June 19, 2015	The church must introduce in its teaching the sin against the environment. The ecological sin.
		June 21, 2015	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.
		June 22, 2015	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.
		June 23, 2015	There is no more country.
		June 28, 2015	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.
		June 29, 2015	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.
		June 30, 2015	While most humans wish to die a painless death, many do not have that good fortune.
		July 3, 2015	This tsunami is coming.
		July 4, 2015	So many people are leaving you can’t even find suitcases.
		July 6, 2015	We’ve reached our limit. This is not a society of beggars.
		July 8, 2015	Retribution is a valid societal interest.
		July 9, 2015	There are no buyers, only sellers.
		July 12, 2015	We used to carry knives. Now we have to carry keys.
		July 13, 2015	I am so sick and tired of all this. It’s such crazy theater.
		July 16, 2015	I don’t think any one of us could have imagined that this could have been a better toy store.
		July 18, 2015	You expect this kind of thing at war, but not here, and they never had a chance to fight back.
		July 19, 2015	When your contract is over, they send you home, saying they’ve transferred the money. You get home, and there is nothing there.
		July 20, 2015	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.
		July 21, 2015	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.
		July 22, 2015	It is designed to break a man’s will to live.
		July 23, 2015	At least they listened to us. We’re breathing little by little.
		July 24, 2015	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.
		July 25, 2015	He was by himself, he sat by himself, and the first two people he shot were right in front of him.
		July 27, 2015	You belong to the captain. So he can sell you if he wants.
		July 28, 2015	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.
		August 2, 2015	The question is whether we are in a new Gilded Age or well beyond it — to a Platinum Age.
		August 3, 2015	I didn’t like him, but I had to like him.
		August 4, 2015	The word ‘tragic’ would be fair.
		August 5, 2015	It seems she’ll stay in the sea. I think she would like that.
		August 9, 2015	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.
		August 10, 2015	It’s crazy. Six years ago, this would not have happened, but now that is the landscape we are in.
		August 11, 2015	There’s always a sense things can boil over, but there’s a sense of maturity here.