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Transcription: [00:36:37]
{SPEAKER name="PATTI SMITH"}
[[singing with acoustic guitar accompaniment]]
Blakean year.

So throw off your stupid cloak,
Embrace all that you fear.
'Cause joy will conquer all despair,
In my Blakean year.
In my Blakean year.
In my Blakean year.
[[applause]]

[00:37:24]
[[speaking]] Thank you.

[00:37:27]
{SPEAKER name="DAVID C. WARD"}
And I think, we'll close on that lovely note. We have time for questions.

[00:37:33]
Uhhm, we don't have mics, so if you don't mind me repeating the question. Also, please try to put your question in the form of a question. [[laughter]]

[00:37:45]
And I think we need the house lights 'cause I can't see any hands.

[00:37:49]
Or maybe there are no questions??

{SPEAKER name="PATTI SMITH"}
Anybody have a question?

{SPEAKER name="DAVID C. WARD"}
Come on! Yeah. Well, you pick 'em, Patti.

{SPEAKER name="PATTI SMITH"}
OK. Right there.

[00:37:55]
{SPEAKER name="AUDIENCE #1"}
Ah, I really like the story--

{SPEAKER name="DAVID C. WARD"}
Could you stand up, Sir?

[00:37:59]
{SPEAKER name="AUDIENCE #1"}
I really like the stories you have about the Chelsea Hotel. And I really like the stories you have about Harry Smith — who was a great folklorist, and one should know about — but

[00:38:11]
I wonder if you could tell a little bit about what Harry Smith [[?]] knew about folklorist — not about how he was always cadging money, but, you know, that the art that he helped us learn about—

[00:38:24]
{SPEAKER name="PATTI SMITH"}
Well, Harry had such a diverse, um, field of knowledge, and really, in all the time I spent with Harry we talked mostly about alchemy, and magic, and, except sometimes he would play tapes for me, that he had made, that no one had heard yet;

[00:38:47]
uh, I mentioned he played me a little tape of a song done by a girl who said she had been Jesse James' girlfriend. And he had Kiowa Indian rituals. But, he just, we just listened to them —

[00:39:03]
you know, I experienced with Harry, and had adventures with Harry, but um, I wasn't, like a student or anything, so I couldn't really — someone else could talk to you about, all of, you know, you know more, you know uh, musicology, and things like that, who spent— 'cause Harry,

[00:39:27]
everybody has different stories; some people can say I learned everything about the blues from Harry, or I learned everything about string figures from Harry, and uh, me and Harry spent a lot of time on magic.