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Twin Shadow – Tyrant Destroyed
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The opening track from Twin Shadow’s debut album, Forget.
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Twin Shadow – Forget
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The 11th and final track from Twin Shadow’s debut album of the same name, Forget
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Twin Shadow – At My Heels
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The 5th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget..
In this track, George sings about a past love. He hasn’t quite gotten over the relationship and feels as though the
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Twin Shadow – Yellow Balloon
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The 6th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget
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Twin Shadow – Tether Beat
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The 7th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget
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Twin Shadow – Shooting Holes
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The 4th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget
This song was featured in the The Music of Grand Theft Auto V, three years after it was released and due to this it
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Twin Shadow – Castles in the Snow
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The 8th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget
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Twin Shadow – I Can't Wait
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The 10th of 11 tracks from Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget
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Twin Shadow – Slow
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Off of Twin Shadow’s debut album Forget. The track got a lot of buzz among the horn-rimmed glasses and tall-boy PBR types. It was produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear fame.
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Twin Shadow – When We're Dancing
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[Verse 1] / I'm trying to remember all the things that I've moaned / They all shine soft and stand alone / Like I picture you waiting at the end of a bridge / But it's hard for me
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DizzyEight (Ft. 954mari, BlvkDivmonds, Ciyo, CJ DACHAMP, Darnell Bradley, Dedboii Kez, Delta Deez, Diggz Da Prophecy, Geno Five, Gr3ys0n, IAMCHRISCRAIG, InternetAaron, InternetMikey, Mix Williams, PE$O PETE, Politicess, Sivade, Synsei, DA-WOLF, VI Seconds & zZzSleepyAsh) – BLACK AIR FORCE ENERGY CYPHER
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A cypher containing some of anime’s most badass characters, also sixteen minutes long, making it one of the longest anime cyphers on YouTube.
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Victor Hugo – Vol. I, Book I, Chap. X: "The Bishop in the Presence of an Unknown Light"
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(VOLUME I: FANTINE; BOOK I: A JUST MAN) / At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the preceding pages, he did a thing which, if the whole town was to be
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 4)
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Byron’s footnotes are given in the annotations in square brackets [].
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Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab
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I / HOW wonderful is Death, / Death, and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's
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William Shakespeare – Venus and Adonis
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Taken from a story told in Book X, Fable 9 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this epic poem treats Venus' pursuit of Adonis in much more erotic terms, with the handsome youth’s death being
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John Milton – Paradise Lost, Book 12
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THE ARGUMENT / The Angel Michael continues from the Flood to relate what shall succeed; then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain, who that Seed of the Woman
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Rap Genius Users (Ft. CKoo, Deadbby ♥, GOLD, Halfadelic, Mike M, Nebuchadnzr, Open Mike Eagle, Sho, Slickk, The Waters, VideoKilledTheStereochrome & WC-DRS) – Forum Cypher
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From this Goat Thread:
https://genius.com/discussions/122942-Rg-forum-cypher
Created by Halfadelic and Khroam (Slade_Razor).
This will be the beat for the cypher (EmperorAguila
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Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Defence of Poetry
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Date: 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840.
The essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock’s article ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’, which had been
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Saint Augustine – The City of God (Book XVIII)
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ARGUMENT. / augustin traces the parallel courses of the earthly and heavenly cities from the time of abraham to the end of the world; and alludes to the oracles regarding christ
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William Blake – Milton: A Poem
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This poem contains the famous poem ‘And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times’, which was later used in the anthem ‘Jerusalem’. Please see the page on ‘And Did Those Feet in Ancient
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Montague Summers – The Vampire, His Kith And Kin - Chapter 1
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CHAPTER I / THE ORIGINS OF THE VAMPIRE / THROUGHOUT the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 2)
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Canto the Second / I. / Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!—but thou, alas, / Didst never yet one mortal song inspire— / Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was, / And is, despite of
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Ben Jonson – The Poetaster Act 5. Scene 1
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Banquet halls are a very special place, where under one big roof so many different memories are made. From proms to weddings to baby showers, once that DJ starts to spin, there’s
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J. Hector St John de Crevecouer – Letters from an American Farmer (Letter 4)
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Description of The Island of Nantucket, With The Manners, Customs, Policy, and Trade of The Inhabitants / The greatest compliment that can be paid to the best of kings, to the
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Lord Byron – The Corsair
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Date: First published 1814.
Related works: The Giaour was the first of Byron’s series of Oriental romances. The poem’s success led Byron to publish three more “Turkish tales” in
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Frederick Douglass – What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
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Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester, NY, on July 5th, 1852.
The well-known speech was previously known as “The Meaning of July the
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Plato (Ft. Benjamin Jowett) – Phaedrus (Full Text)
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PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Phaedrus. / SCENE: Under a plane-tree, by the banks of the Ilissus. / SOCRATES: / My dear Phaedrus, whence come you, and whither are you going
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Anton Chekhov (Ft. Constance Garnett) – A Living Chattel (Full Text)
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GROHOLSKY embraced Liza, kept kissing one after another all her little fingers with their bitten pink nails, and laid her on the couch covered with cheap velvet. Liza crossed one
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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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Publius Vergilius Maro (Ft. John Dryden) – Aeneid: Book 6
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He said, and wept; then spread his sails before / The winds, and reach'd at length the Cumaean shore: / Their anchors dropp'd, his crew the vessels moor. / They turn their heads to
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Aeschylus (Ft. E. D. A. Morshead) – Agamemnon (Full Text)
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The first play in Aeschylus' trilogy, Orestia, and arguably the most famous of the three. Agamemnon is a domestic tragedy, telling the story of the murder of Agamemnon, King of
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Joseph Conrad – Nostromo (Chap. 1.6)
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At that time Nostromo had been already long enough in the country to raise to the highest pitch Captain Mitchell's opinion of the extraordinary value of his discovery. Clearly he
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights,Vol. 2 (Chap. 3)
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Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan / And What Befel Them of Things Seld-Seen and Peregrine.[FN#138] / The King asked her, "And what was their
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Eugene V. Debs – Anti-War Speech
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Comrades, friends and fellow-workers, for this very cordial greeting, this very hearty reception, I thank you all with the fullest appreciation of your interest in and your
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Geoffrey Chaucer (Ft. Paul Strohm) – The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale)
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Standing at the head of The Canterbury Tales, ‘The Knight’s Tale’ is in many ways an exemplar: told by the honorable Knight (though this point has been argued, most agree that
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights,Vol. 3 (Chap. 1.001)
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Continuation of the Tale of Aziz and Azizah / When it was the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Night / Shahrazad continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Aziz pursued to
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John Milton – Paradise Lost, Book 10
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THE ARGUMENT / Mans transgression known, the Guardian Angels forsake Paradise, and return up to Heaven to approve thir vigilance, and are approv'd, God declaring that The entrance
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Montague Summers – The Vampire, His Kith And Kin - Chapter 5
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CHAPTER V / THE VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE / A consideration of the Vampire theme in literature must of necessity be somewhat eclectic, if not even arbitrary in the selection of works
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Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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Just as it seemed Star Wars was over with six movies, Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced they were making an Episode VII. The result was 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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The SCP Foundation – SCP Series
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List of SCPs / 001 to 099 / SCP-001 - Awaiting De-classification (Blocked) / SCP-002 - The "Living" Room / SCP-003 - Biological Motherboard / SCP-004 - The 12 Rusty Keys and the
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Marcus Tullius Cicero – On Duties (De Officiis) - Book III
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1. My son Marcus, Cato, who was nearly of the same age1 with Publius Scipio, the first of the family that bore the name of Africanus, represents him as in the habit of saying that
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Laurence Sterne – A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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A Sentimental Journey was a popular success when published and started the major genre of sentimental travel writing that dominated the latter half of the eighteenth century.
The
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Mary Shelley – 1818 Frankenstein Volume III Chapters I-IV (1-4)
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VOLUME III / CHAPTER I / DAY after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of
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