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Quite · Enough · Antarctica
childhood is a political state
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Red Settlement 50: Someone Leaves The Light On
"Here we go, you bastards," I say, "I brought an army this time."Red Settlement 50 ( Someone Leaves The Light On ) END NOVEL: RED SETTLEMENT, Or, AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES.
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Sinead O'Connor - (You Made Me) The Thief Of Your Heart | |
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Red Settlement 49: This New Book Of My Body And she begins to Read. Red Settlement 49 ( This New Book Of My Body )
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Frou Frou - Flicks | |
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Red Settlement 48: I Love To Be A Spy
You came and left, without caring. That it was you in the car all along, and you drove right past.Red Settlement 48 ( I Love To Be A Spy )
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Tori Amos - Liquid Diamonds | |
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Red Settlement 47: The Tower & The End Of The Sky
The baby makes me tell myself fairy tales, the ones I remember and the ones I make up myself, to practice for her.Red Settlement 47 ( The Tower & The End Of The Sky )
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Suzanne Vega - The Queen & The Soldier | |
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Red Settlement 46: Working The Rail I think that Red gave them back years even as it took a percentage of their oxygen and a majority of their gravity, and now they are breathless and weightless and in love and young again and I start to fall in love with them again too. Red Settlement 46 ( Working The Rail )
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The Bravery - No Ring On These Fingers | |
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Red Settlement 45: The Secret Club Of Boys
You are a man who has been proud and who has been laid low, you are a person who said goodbye to your father with a smile and leapt in one moment, free of gravity, all the way up to Red, like you were dancing. And you never looked back.Red Settlement 45 ( The Secret Club Of Boys )
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Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfillment | |
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Red Settlement 44: Like A Mother & A Father Not Quite
It makes my parents comfortable. Soon enough they become more like themselves and less like guests in a country with a foreign language.Red Settlement 44 ( Like A Mother & A Father Not Quite )
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Dar Williams - Playing To The Firmament | |
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Red Settlement 43: The Singing Of Witches, The Dancing Of Pirates
We mouth the words along her, some in an ironic stance and others with teary wonder, and we are one Red family. I wonder, in these times, if it's because we were all trained so well in the Book down on Blue, if these rhythms and these pledges cling to us like dust, or if there is a greater language, free from any temporary context: the language of grace, as big as all the sky.Red Settlement 43 ( The Singing Of Witches, The Dancing Of Pirates )
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Andreas Johnson - Glorious | |
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Red Settlement 42: Letting In & Being Let
I’ve been observed for months going to the Port Authority and watching the Shuttle being rebuilt. I've been observed for months breaking down in tears and watching it launch into the sky.Red Settlement 42 ( Letting In & Being Let )
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David Bowie - Young Americans | |
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Red Settlement 41: The Abyss Of What Happens
How could you ever think just one story could contain you?Red Settlement 41 ( The Abyss Of What Happens )
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The Cure - Plainsong | |
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Red Settlement 40: Embarrassed Electricity
No idea how many people died when it was gone. Troy pretended it didn't make her cry but I saw.Red Settlement 40 ( Embarrassed Electricity )
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Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All | |
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Red Settlement 39: Constituent Parts
I will be able to dial a number, be connected, and then call to my wife, and say "Mirth, Link's on the phone!" And she'll pick up an extension, and then we'll say ...Red Settlement 39 ( Constituent Parts )
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The Pretenders - Human On The Inside | |
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Red Settlement 38: For The First Time From Space "A gift from the moons," they say, and smile up in the light. I roll my eyes and want something I cannot name. Red Settlement 38 ( For The First Time From Space )
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The Killers - Believe Me Natalie | |
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Red Settlement 37: Coming Back Less Horrible
She will be asking for forgiveness and I won't say anything, and she won't know that's what she wants, but I will give it and she will finally let her shoulders drop.Red Settlement 37 ( Coming Back Less Horrible )
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Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark - Don't Dream It's Over | |
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Red Settlement 36: The Color Of Plums
If they found out, if they could see into my mind, I'd be in a cell by now. The crimes I have done with a smile on my face and the Book in my mouth.Red Settlement 36: ( The Color Of Plums ) |
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Red Settlement 35: Waiting To Drop The Bomb
There's so much room in this house for us both, now that I know what I'm doing. Red Settlement 35 ( Waiting To Drop The Bomb )
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Frou Frou - It's Good To Be In Love | |
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Red Settlement 34: The Knife Is Too Tired
So I say I only want Ted. And that is true.Red Settlement 34 ( The Knife Is Too Tired )
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Clinic - Come Into Our Room | |
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Red Settlement 33: The Boy Who Wears Green
There were fifteen people dead all told after the explosion, but nobody strategic. And nobody we wanted dead. Red Settlement 33 ( The Boy Who Wears Green ) |
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Red Settlement 32: I Have No Issue Nor Have I Ever
Inside I am no color but the airy golden light of the Book and its angels, like them neither man nor woman. Red Settlement 32 ( I Have No Issue Nor Have I Ever )
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Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam | |
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Red Settlement 31: If He Wasn't Red At All
"If I can't make these choices for myself then what is Red." Red Settlement 31 ( If He Wasn't Red At All )
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The Strokes - Ask Me Anything | |
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Red Settlement 30: All The Things That Are Known
After so long fearing the Shuttle's destruction, and so much work staving off that nightmare, it is curious that such a simple device, a plastique bomb with a timer, would have been affixed in full view of the Governing Body, with no intervention.Red Settlement 30 ( All The Things That Are Known )
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Joan Osborne - Lumina | |
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Red Settlement 29: Dix Goodfellow & The Queen Of The Witches
Was their love not the rose that bloomed in the red dust of the Settlement, in defiance of all nature and Book, coming like a message from the future to save them all?Red Settlement 29 ( Dix Goodfellow & The Queen Of The Witches )
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Donovan - The Hurdy-Gurdy Man | |
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Red Settlement 28: Beyond Your Shroud & Your Cowardly Gamble
"I ask you to listen to the voice of the Book in your own heart.""Then you are damned." Red Settlement 28 ( Beyond Your Shroud & Your Cowardly Gamble )
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Al Stewart - On The Border | |
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Red Settlement 27: I'm Still Too Much Pirate
He smiles but it isn't a smile. His eyes are like the moons.Red Settlement 27 ( I'm Still Too Much Pirate )
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Hole - Jennifer's Body | |
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Red Settlement 26: You Cannot Store Up Love Nor Can You Redirect It
That you could forge a beauty and a love out of anything, and this was a sign of providence.Red Settlement 26 ( You Cannot Store Up Love Nor Can You Redirect It )
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Veruca Salt - Aurora | |
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Red Settlement 25: The Fact Of Free Agency
First the cause, and then when that proved futile, art. And then I was all of a sudden a terrorist, an example.Red Settlement 25 ( The Fact Of Free Agency )
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Something Corporate - Anything, Anything | |
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Red Settlement 24: Field Is Many Things
There was a law against laws that told you not to think the thought or say the word before you said it. Once on Blue it was outlawed to tell a person they couldn't think the thought they hadn't yet thought. And now it is the heart of the Book.Red Settlement 24 ( Field Is Many Things )
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Sarah McLachlan - Steaming | |
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Red Settlement 23: Knife Out, Body Hard
Only once have I attended and it scared me terribly and I have not gone back, for on that night with Fear and Dread so bright and full above and twisted I felt a thing I cannot name.Red Settlement 23 ( Knife Out, Body Hard )
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Underworld - Born Slippy | |
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Red Settlement 22: But Could You Bless The Son That Remains
And Honor raised Chess to his feet, and gazed into his eyes, and the tears there must have been the overwhelming love of the Book that we've all felt.Red Settlement 22 ( But Could You Bless The Son That Remains )
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Sundays - Don't Tell Your Mother | |
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Red Settlement 21: Goff Rolls His Eyes
How many nights or hours until I wake up and find myself in the exact middle of our great bed? The time is getting shorter.Red Settlement 21 ( Goff Rolls His Eyes )
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I Believe (When I Fall In Love With You It Will Be Forever) | |
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Red Settlement 20: Curled In The Wart
I got that thing open and it hurt but it was worth it, seeing it under the light of the sun. Remember when he was a friend? The last time I loved him was on the Fairy when we went sunside and the world was full of light and Rend smiled so bright.Red Settlement 20 ( Curled In The Wart ) |
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Red Settlement 19: Keep Me Searching For A Cinnamon Girl
They set you up in these stations and all you get is Red line, Red line, feeling this and fucking that, and you're supposed to make sense of this.Red Settlement 19 ( Keep Me Searching For A Cinnamon Girl )
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Travis - Writing To Reach You | |
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Red Settlement 18: Dix Goodfellow, Pirate Of Mars
We caress when we should cut and we shake hands when we should slap and we refuse to simply tell the truth plain: life in goggles and sweaty atmo suits is no life at all.Red Settlement 18 ( Dix Goodfellow, Pirate Of Mars )
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Dar Williams - The Ocean | |
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Red Settlement 17: Three Weeks Of Strong Wind
"You know how when you were little, they tried to make you right-handed? And they tied your hand to the desk, and you cried?"Red Settlement 17 ( Three Weeks Of Strong Wind )
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Garbage - When I Grow Up | |
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Red Settlement 16: The Cruise And What It Takes From You
What percentage of Blue is perfect for this life? How many of us are living these quiet approximations and know the rules and lies we’re telling in order to stay in the Book and the Blue?Red Settlement 16 ( The Cruise And What It Takes From You )
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Pebbles - Mercedes Boy | |
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Red Settlement 15: What We Can All Do Moving Forward
I can barely remember the point of the sentences by the time I reach the end. I can barely remember to hate myself in the spaces, grown elegantly long, grown cavernous and echoing, between the words.Red Settlement 15 ( What We Can All Do Moving Forward )
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Depeche Mode - Condemnation | |
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Red Settlement 14: The Red Sun Over The Red Hill
You say to yourself, “I am Troy, and today I want to be …” and this is the truth about Troy. So if Tesk can only answer “Tesk,” does that make him better than me or worse.Red Settlement 14 ( The Red Sun Over The Red Hill )
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Tori Amos - The Beekeeper | |
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Red Settlement 13: Dreamt About Raspberry
It's the only story that makes sense: Rustic, nouvelle, fusion, it all accretes and nothing is forgotten.Red Settlement 13 ( Dreamt About Raspberry )
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James - Greenpeace | |
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Red Settlement 12: I Put On My Wolf Look
So I have to make the effort to do things I don't want to do to people I don't want, and there's nowhere else to put me. Down, like a dog. Like a wolf on the outskirts.Red Settlement 12 ( I Put On My Wolf Look )
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The Go-Betweens - Was There Anything I Could Do? | |
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Red Settlement 11: The Pirates Are Infrared
Please Your Honor how far from (0.2N, 2.5W) to (24.8N, 164W) and will they be there when I come?Red Settlement 11 ( The Pirates Are Infrared )
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Imogen Heap - Loose Ends | |
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Red Settlement 10: I'm Biting The Neon
But like everybody was saying it's going to be so bad, so scary, rapes galore and being somebody's bitch and I said so like the soccer team?Red Settlement 10 ( I'm Biting The Neon ) |
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Red Settlement 9: At Night When We Dream
I found out later he'd been to Chess's as well, which was probably his undoing. Chess's mother would put even Brother Reader off the Book.Red Settlement 9 ( At Night When We Dream )
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The Walkmen - The Rat | |
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Red Settlement 8: None Among Us Has Not Despaired
This is a kind of love; it is the love of the Book. It is not my burden to ask how a parent could let those marks obscure the face of someone conceived in love and in the Book.Red Settlement 8 ( None Among Us Has Not Despaired )
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Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame | |
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Red Settlement 7: World Shakes In The Black
Not being able to picture anything right how are you supposed to imagine life. I wish there was a brochure Your Honor. Suggestion box.Red Settlement 7 ( World Shakes In The Black )
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Imogene Heap - Headlock | |
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Red Settlement 6: Sid The Knife
After the fifth one they said it's either Edison medicine or -- and the guy looked at his supervisor -- you go Red? I said you mean declare and I laughed in their faces but they said not exactly.Red Settlement 6 ( Sid The Knife )
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Sergio Mendes - The Look Of Love | |
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Red Settlement 5: I Needed A Gun To Kill A Man
Am I enough of a girl, or enough of a boy, am I soft or rough-hewn enough, that it's not just looking in the mirror at the things you hate most?Red Settlement 5 ( I Needed A Gun To Kill A Man )
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Dramarama - Anything, Anything | |
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Red Settlement 4: Rend The Fairyman
There's always a stare of accusation in the dream, right before the fire. Sometimes one of them figures out what's happening, and shouts that I deserve it.Red Settlement 4 ( Rend The Fairyman )
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Fiona Apple - Pale September | |
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Red Settlement 3: Goff Gets A Skin Disorder
I cannot tell him that the story is correct, that his skin disorder is a natural consequence of living all his days in fear that I'll disappear.Red Settlement 3 ( Goff Gets A Skin Disorder )
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FischerSpooner - The 15th | |
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Red Settlement 2: Ted & The Book
You hear statistics like that and wonder how fast it could have changed; I say change is always that fast. The trick is to respond in kind.If I thought these words could change anything I wouldn't be leaving the Blue. Consider the fact that this parting shot is nothing more than a goodbye and an admission that I am giving up. Red Settlement 2 ( Ted & The Book )
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Donovan - Season Of The Witch | |
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Red Settlement 1: Coming Off The Angel
...And so we laid down and waited for the sparks to go to sleep and there was his hand on my back, like a friend, like a tour guide saying, This is the time when the light goes out of the world. And then that hand moving like a tour guide saying, This is the time when nobody is watching.Red Settlement 1 ( Coming Off The Angel )
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Damien Rice - Volcano (Demo) | |
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