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Second Nature
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Punisher
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Melodrama
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
Carries a strong pull into books through G Rard Genette and identity.
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The Second Sex
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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5 Centimeters Per Second
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and East Asia.
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Andor
Carries a strong pull into anime through identity and surveillance.
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Second Epistle to Timothy
book of the New Testament attributed to Paul
Music · Strong bridge
Flood
2000s
Flood is the second studio album by Japanese experimental band Boris, released on December 15, 2000. It consists of a single 70-minute title-track that is broken into four movements.
Anime · Strong bridge
5 Centimeters Per Second
2000s
Three chapters of distance — physical, emotional, temporal — between two people who loved each other as children. Shinkai's delicate heartbreak in watercolor light.
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Film · Strong bridge
Second Act
2018 film directed by Peter Segal
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Essays 1940s
The Second Sex
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Existentialist feminism's founding text.
Books
Second Epistle to the Corinthians
book of the New Testament attributed to Paul
Music 2000s
Untrue
Untrue is the second studio album by British electronic music producer Burial. Released on 5 November 2007 by Hyperdub, the album was produced by Burial in 2007 using the digital audio editing software Sound Forge. Untrue builds on the sound established by Burial on his eponymous debut album from the previous year,...
Anime 2020s
Blue Period
Second-year high school student Yatora Yaguchi is a delinquent with excellent grades, but is unmotivated to find his true calling in life. Yatora spends his days working hard to maintain his academic standing while hanging out with his equally unambitious friends. However, beneath his carefree demeanor, Yatora does...
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Film
Chennai 600028 II: Second Innings
2016 Tamil film directed by Venkat Prabhu
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Essays 1980s
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree is a 1982 essay or critical text by Gérard Genette, linked to a wider international field and multiple languages. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial cont...