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Proper Position for Floating [1881]
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Amour Propre
Keeps a workable bridge into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Analects
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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72 Tenants of Prosperity
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Money
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and memory.
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Money
1980s
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic transatlantic film project and a personal unravelling. Contemporary and later critics have frequently read the book as a sharp satire of 1980s consumer culture a...
Film · Strong bridge
The Green Ray
1980s
The Green Ray, released in North America as Summer, is a 1986 French romantic drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the...
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The Analects
Sayings of Confucius on virtue, governance, and proper conduct. The foundation of East Asian ethics.

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Elegies
surviving work by Propertius, comprising four books
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72 Tenants of Prosperity
72 Tenants of Prosperity is a 2010 film from Hong Kong, associated with Eric Tsang and Patrick Kong. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
2012 book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
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Music 2000s
Proper Position for Floating [1881]
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
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