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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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Subject: Re: old Fripp album
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Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 22:17:17 EDT
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Hello, and glad to oblidge. The elderly gentleman is J. G. Bennett.
He was a disciple of Gurdjieff's protegee Ouspensky, and an economist
in the mold of the late and much lamented E. F. "Small is Beautiful"
Schumacher. Most of his work in print you find would be centered around
his work with the Fourth Way (cf Gurdjieff)-I know of no writings on
economics off hand. He is of interest to Fripp because Fripp studied
with him at Sherbourne House, a Fourth Way place that Fripp attended
during the time he was absent from public view. After Bennett's death,
Fripp took on the task of editing down all of Bennett's talks at Sherbourne
House. Much of Fripp's gift of aphorism tends to hide the essential core
of Bennet's ideas about size and scale, but you will find Bennett saying
much of what Fripp condenses on the back of "Let the Power Fall".

If you are interested in his ideas rather than the presence of his voice,
I should recommend the series of essays/ruminations that Fripp did for
Studio International (They were published in Musician in the U.S.).

Better yet, try Schumacher's work: It is the wellspring of Bennett's thinking
(he really took Schumacher's thought and translated it out of Schumacher's
religious persuasion into his own). Two excellent books would be:

Small is Beautiful and Good Work.

THese writings have been rather central to my life, so my recommendation
carries a bit of bias. Of course, Fripp quotes them too.....

G(small, mobile, and intelligent) taylor