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Frame of Reference
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Ladies of the Canyon
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Illinois
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Carries a strong pull into film through power and South Asia.
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An Angel at My Table
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Books · Strong bridge
Rule of Wolves
2021 novel by Leigh Bardugo
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Ladies of the Canyon
1970s
Ladies of the Canyon is the third studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on Reprise Records in 1970. It peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The title makes reference to Laurel Canyon, a center of popular music culture in Los Angeles duri...
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Film · Strong bridge
An Angel at My Table
1990s
The life of Janet Frame: misdiagnosed, institutionalized, and triumphant as a writer.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
1970s
Self-reference, strange loops, and the emergence of meaning. Mathematics, art, and music as mirrors of consciousness.
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Agents of Chaos
novel duology by James Luceno
Music 2000s
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. It features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that St...
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Whisper of the Heart
1995 anime film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō
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canon of Sherlock Holmes
56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sons of the Soil
1919 film by Gunnar Sommerfeldt
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Music 2000s
Armour Of God / 3rd Stone