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<p>For example, the song “Air ‘Em Out”, densest in references, mentions topics or phrases from the movie Independence Day, Iain M. Banks’s <em>The Player of Games</em>, Samuel Delany’s “Aye, and Gomorrah”, Octavia Butler’s <em>Lilith’s Brood</em> series, M. John Harrison’s <em>Kefahuchi Tract</em> trilogy, Ursula K. LeGuin’s <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em> (and, later, the rest of the <em>Hainish</em> cycle), Orson Scott Card’s <em>Ender’s Game</em> series, and Laird Barron’s <em>The Croning</em> all in under four minutes. The <a href="https://genius.com/10417848">Genius Page</a> is a thing to behold.</p>
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<p>Coming off of “Seasons”, finding a way to creatively incorporate external sources specifically to add to the text is something that I’ve really worked at, myself, and why I thought to include this for annotating. I think that there are ways to smoothly incorporate references in such a way as to touch on some small bit of recognition within the reader without hammering the point home.</p>
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<p>I’ve had mixed success with this so far in my writing. With “Seasons”, it was simply part of the structure of the essay to include references, but there I had the chance to explain them. In another work from back in 2018, <a href="https://makyo.ink/growth/">“Growth”</a>, I feel like I did an okay job of incorporating references (Rilke’s first “Duino Elegy” and, of all things, Frank Herbert’s <em>Dune</em>).</p>
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<p>Less successful was the book <a href="https://qoheleth.makyo.ink/"><em>Qoheleth</em></a> which had an <a href="https://qoheleth.makyo.ink/read/15/">entire section</a> inspired by by “Air ‘Em Out”. I tried to lampshade the inclusions by pointing them out, but they came off as tenuous reaches much of the time. My original excuse is that that portion of the story was released as an ARG puzzle for folks to follow, but I still could have cleaned it up better prior to publication. I’ve tried to do better with later books in the series (<em>Toledot</em> references “Toledot Yeshu” throughout but I try to make it transparent, <em>Nevi’im</em> relies heavily on various poems by Dickinson, and <em>Mitzvot</em> is leaning on Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” quite unsuccessfully as yet, but that’s what drafts are for).</p>
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<p>Less successful was the book <a href="https://qoheleth.makyo.ink/"><em>Qoheleth</em></a> which had an <a href="https://qoheleth.makyo.ink/read/15/">entire section</a> inspired by by “Air ‘Em Out”. I tried to lampshade the inclusions by pointing them out, but they came off as tenuous reaches much of the time. My original excuse is that that portion of the story was released as an ARG puzzle for folks to follow, but I still could have cleaned it up better prior to publication. I’ve tried to do better with later books in the series (<a href="https://toledot.makyo.ink"><em>Toledot</em></a> references “Toledot Yeshu” throughout but except for one instance I tred to make it transparent, <a href="https://neviim.makyo.ink"><em>Nevi’im</em></a> relies heavily on various poems by Dickinson, and <em>Mitzvot</em> is leaning on Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” — quite unsuccessfully as yet, but that’s what drafts are for).</p>
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<p>There are a few albums that I feel hold together well enough to listen to from start to finish, and this one tops the list for me. It’s like sitting down to a well told, well acted audio drama with spotless production for the music. I’m a fan.</p>
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