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The Stuttering of the Kids
  In the early 1980s there was a lot of idiocy about the imminent arrival of the year 1984 and what it would mean for our society. A lot of brain donors were doing their damnedest to revise history by making Orwell's '1984' not be about Left totalitarianism (despite that Orwell himself said that's what it was about) but about corporate fascism or some such nonsense. So, I wrote (actually in 1983, but I chose to date it in 1984 for obvious reasons) the ten-piece suite, 'The Stuttering of the Kids,' the title coming from a verse in a Pete Townshend song for reasons having nothing to do with the substance of either work.


Jan 1984

The Stuttering of the Kids (a Finale)

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:50

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

And that’s the end.

Um, take that in whatever way you think best.

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The Faceless Dead

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:48

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

Our narrator has seen this before. His mischievous façade slips.

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Best of Intentions

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:42

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

If they have good intentions, that makes them the good guys, so any bad results are beside the point. And if the other side has less-than-pure intentions, that makes them the bad guys, so the fact their solutions actually work is likewise beside the point.

OBK and his priests seem to be winning.

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Across the Grain

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:38

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

Our hero finally figures it out. But is it too late?

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Enforcement

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:35

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

Good beat, easy to dance to, just the sort of tune OBK wants the kids to hear.

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Care of You

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:26

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

The intellectual elite of Our Brother’s Keeper’s supporters explain—or try to explain, over the interruptions of our narrator—the philosophical basis of their leader’s rule.

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Graffiti

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:16

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

A cacophony of voices! Two new ones, one of which belongs to “the kids,“ being led by the villain and his supporters. The other belongs to the intellectual elite among the villain’s supporters.

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Fantasies

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:11

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

Clearly a villain here, with a chorus of potential enforcers in the background.

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Seek

Sun   1 Jan 1984   18:05

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

The voice here is perhaps a younger, or merely less jaded, counterpart to the narrator, certainly someone who doesn’t already know where things are headed—but is pretty sure something’s going wrong.

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Grandiloquy (a Prologue)

Sun   1 Jan 1984   17:56

by Kevin McGehee

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[Verse]
[The Stuttering of the Kids]

Completed

This piece is done in the voice of a seemingly disinterested but somewhat mischievous narrator who already knows which way things are going. He’ll reappear in subsequent pieces dropping hints.

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