Genius Meanings
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Purity Ring – repetition
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The third track shared in advance of Purity Ring’s sophomore album another eternity, after “push pull” and “begin again.” It was first revealed on Huw Stephens' BBC Radio 1 show.
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Purity Ring – bodyache
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The third single from their 2015 sophomore album another eternity, “bodyache,” was released alongside a music video on February 26th, 2015.
This electro-dreampop track is among
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Purity Ring – heartsigh
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The first song of Purity Ring’s sophomore album another eternity.
From the beginning we’ve always been trying to write pop music.
-Corin Roddick
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Purity Ring – stranger than earth
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“stranger than earth” compares the eruption of a volcano to the eruption of emotions during a relationship.
I just kind of try to make a song out of one idea but with stranger
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Purity Ring – begin again
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The second single for their 2015 album Another Eternity, following “Push Pull”. According to Purity Ring:
This might be the first full-on love song [we’ve written]. It’s kind of
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Purity Ring – push pull
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[Verse 1] / You were young and you'd stare / With a reverence unimpaired / There was an echo far and faint / Beneath the air remained / You were young and you'd stare / Where my
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Purity Ring – sea castle
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[Verse 1] / I could build a big machine / Draw pictures for the walls / Hang up all my fragile thoughts / Displayed that you might see / A space, a drop, a cloth, a comfort of
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Purity Ring – flood on the floor
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“flood on the floor” is a tale of a woman who seduces the main character of the song (“you”). It is implied that she has evil intentions.
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Purity Ring – stillness in woe
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[Verse 1] / Meet me in the blue bed / I'll be drawing out your flaws / And clawing at what's caused / My knees to tremble / Meet me in the back shed / I'll be hanging up the knives
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Purity Ring – dust hymn
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[Chorus] / Dear, lie still along my old web / Cursed by your dust filled head / Dear, lie still along my old web / Cursed by your dust filled head / [Verse 1] / Water spills down o
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Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Chapter 6)
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Orlando went indoors. It was completely still. It was very silent. There / was the ink pot: there was the pen; there was the manuscript of her poem, / broken off in the middle of a
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Lasagna Cat (Ft. John Blyth Barrymore & Philip Glass) – 07/27/1978
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When I was 18... 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life... I saw an image of clarity. I saw a comic strip... a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed
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Robert Louis Stevenson – The Dynamiter (Story of the Fair Cuban)
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I am not what I seem. My father drew his descent, on the one hand, from grandees of Spain, and on the other, through the maternal line, from the patriot Bruce. My mother, too, was
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 13 - Nausicaa)
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NAUSICAA
TIME: 8.00 pm.
SCENE: The rocks on Sandymount Strand where Stephen had walked in PROTEUS.
ORGAN: Eye, nose
ART: Painting
COLOURS: Gray, blue
SYMBOL: Virgin
TECHNIQUE
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William Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece
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Shakespeare’s epic poem is taken from Roman mythology, with the story having been related by numerous sources, including Livy’s The Rape of Lucretia, about how the Roman republic
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Marcel Proust – The Verdurins Quarrel(Chap. 2)
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CHAPTER TWO / THE VERDURINS QUARREL WITH M. DE CHARLUS / After dinner, I told Albertine that, since I was out of
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Plato (Ft. Benjamin Jowett) – Theaetetus (Full Text)
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PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus. / Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they enter the house, and the dialogue is read to them by
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Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes (Chap. 1)
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To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the
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Marcel Proust – A Visit from Albertine (Chapter 2)
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CHAPTER TWO / A VISIT FROM ALBERTINE — PROSPECT OF RICH BRIDES FOR CERTAIN FRIENDS OF SAINT-LOUP — THE WIT OF THE GUERMANTES, AS DISPLAYED
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Marcel Proust – Names of People (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / NAMES OF PEOPLE: THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES — SAINT-LOUP AT DONCIÈRES — MME. DE VILLEPARISIS AT HOME — MY GRANDMOTHER’S
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Lord Byron – English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is Byron’s first major satire and established his reputation among literary circles. His first major work of poems, Hours of Idleness (which
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James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Chap. 3)
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The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its
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Marcel Proust – Chapter 3
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CHAPTER THREE / THE SORROWS OF M. DE CHARLUS. — HIS SHAM DUEL. — THE STATIONS ON THE ‘TRANSATLANTIC.’— WEARY OF ALBERTINE I DECIDE TO BREAK WITH HER / I was dropping with sleep. I
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Marcel Proust – Seascape, with Frieze of Girls (Chapter 3)
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SEASCAPE, WITH FRIEZE OF GIRLS / DINNERS AT RIVEBELLE — ENTER ALBERTINE / That day, as for some days past
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Indian History Sourcebook – The Laws Of Manu
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CHAPTER I. / 1. The great sages approached Manu, who was seated with a collected mind, and, having duly worshipped him, spoke as follows: / 2. 'Deign, divine one, to declare to us
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Honoré de Balzac (Ft. Ellen Marriage) – The Magic Skin (3. The Agony)
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III. THE AGONY / In the early days of December an old man of some seventy years of age pursued his way along the Rue de Varenne, in spite of the falling rain. He peered up at the
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St. Thomas Aquinas – Summa Contra Gentiles - Book IV
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Chapter 1 / FOREWORD / Lo, these things are only outlines of His ways: and how small a whisper we hear of Him. The thunder of his power who can understand? (Job 26:14). / [Douay
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Marcel Proust – Flight of Albertine(Chap. 3)
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CHAPTER THREE / FLIGHT OF ALBERTINE / Seeing how late it was, and fearing that Albertine
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Marcel Proust – Chapter 2
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CHAPTER TWO / THE MYSTERIES OF ALBERTINE — THE GIRLS WHOM SHE SEES REFLECTED IN THE GLASS — THE OTHER WOMAN — THE LIFT-BOY — MADAME DE CAMBREMER — THE PLEASURES OF M. NISSIM
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Marcel Proust – Chapter 1
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CHAPTER ONE / M. DE CHARLUS IN SOCIETY. — A PHYSICIAN. — TYPICAL PHYSIOGNOMY OF MME. DE VAUGOUBERT. — MME. D’ARPAJON, THE HUBERT ROBERT FOUNTAIN AND THE MERRIMENT OF THE GRAND DUKE
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