Flatland (1884)
This book will permanently rewire your imagination. Because of this book, I have seen things in my dreams that cannot adequately be described with human words.

Come and See (1985)
This movie reshaped my views on ideology, morality, and humanity as a whole. It made me rethink the meaning of war. It made me realize the futility of hatred. It made me love humanity again.

SOMA (2015)
This game made me completely rethink my views on religion, ethics, morality, the purpose of life, spiritualism, and the nature of reality. It may have directly given me a new mental illness or two. It also made me transhumanist.

Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
This show made me feel understood, and massively retooled my understanding of my own mind. It is immaculate in its audiovisual harmony of artistic vision and softspoken storytelling. It led me to realize how much love for existence I was missing. It also made me change my mind about transhumanism.

SCP-085 - Hand-drawn "Cassy" (2008)
Isn't there something oddly beautiful about a world where the only impossibility is the one thing you want?

Real Genius (1985)
This movie is really, really smart and funny. There's not a year that goes by in which I don't realize one more reason this movie is relentlessly funny and true to life.

Wandersong (2018)
This game makes me purely, outstandingly happy on every level. I have an internal monologue that exclusively loops songs from this game's soundtrack all day.

Electrical desires
Had unraveled all my wires
Now I'm in a box
For safe-keeping

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The careful textbooks measure
Let all who build beware
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear
For when the buckled girder
Lets down the grinding span
The pain of loss or murder
Is laid upon the man
Not on the steel
The man

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As the universe turned black
Did the sun ever defy fate
Beyond it all do you recognize me
Does meaning have meaning

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Red - the blood of angry men
Black - the dark of ages past
Red - a world about to dawn
Black - the night that ends at last

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Worlds grow old
And suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt
Times cold wind wailing down the past
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out

But the Eagle has landed
Tell your children when
Time won't drive us down to dust again

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In Eighteen-hundred and forty-one
My corduroy britches I put on
My corduroy britches I put on
To work upon the railway
The railway
I am weary of the railway
But poor Paddy works on the railway

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What power art thou who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow

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На заре - голоса зовут меня
[At dawn, voices call my name]

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Be it carved from out the finest wood
Or strung with silver string
Only mortal trust or faerie dust
Can make a fiddle sing

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Oh then tell me Sean O'Farrell
Why do you hurry so
'Hush my boy, hush and listen'
And his cheeks were all aglow
'I bear orders from the captain
Get you ready quick and soon
For the pikes must be together
By the rising of the moon'

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Your word and my word and your word is
Tomorrow, today, and yesterday
But it's a necessary evil

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Kiki ni kawarazu
yuku hoshi no ne wa
zutto KIMI no koe ni kakurete

[The sound of the planet that goes on changelessly at a moment of crisis has been hidden in YOUR voice all this time]

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And day by day
Life's getting better now
I'll be OK
I'll be OK

I'd like to say
Since we're together now
We're all OK
We're all OK

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Not now for the songs of a nation's wrongs
Or to the woes of starving labor
Let the rifle ring and the bullets sing
To the clash of the flashing saber

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Please, storyteller
Pull a tale from your pocket
Spin me a tale from your coat tail so bare
My heart has turned cold
I fear I'm too old
And I need to know magic's still there

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But you know someday you're gonna win that race
And fly back the years to your starting space
And you'll stay a while 'fore you're back in space
Pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
And you've left behind you the world of men
With no way in hell to go home again
Pushing the speed of light

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Bring me my lance
Bring my shield
Strong as my sword is the vengeance I wield
To seek vengeance is wrong claim my masterful lords
But vengeance has tempered my sword
Vengeance has tempered my sword

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But if you would
Turn around
Feel my heartbeat racing faster now

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Who made the moon that pulchritudinous silver
She must've bought that shade from a market in Peru
Can't help but look at her multitudinous trinkets
I always wish that I could have that attitude

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Battle cry
All the sound and light seemed to be
Blessing us
Rock parade

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Blackbeard, Blackbeard
Terror of the sea
You made your mark in history
Blackbeard, Blackbeard
Hang those colors high
This is the day that you die

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Då finns det ingen som tar en
Man är kung, kung, kung i baren

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"Blacksmith, make a sword for me
Such as none did ever see
For ancient symbols of majesty
Have power in troubled times

Blacksmith, make me a magic sword
One that will make me the valley's lord
Whom folk would hail with one accord
To save them from their crimes"

Seeing he would not be deterred
The blacksmith took him at his word
He pondered long on what he'd heard
About the would-be lord

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Two men walked on a beach in the sun
One left footprints, the other left none
One was a man who no man obeys
The other, a god from the ancient days

"Look," said the man, "how my kind make war"
"I've summoned you here to ask, 'what for?'"
"For wealth, for land," the god replied
"For life, or freedom, or some king's lies"

The sun is also a warrior
Knowledge can also destroy
Nor can the kindest will
Preserve you from the kill
Not all of wisdom brings joy

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