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The Great War

Midnights · 2022 · Track 14
Quill · Sole author
Also known as: TGW
Motifs & symbols
Crypt
Structural
Death & Mortality

"And maybe it's the past that's talking, screaming from the crypt"

The past erupts from its burial place — the crypt as both literal gothic image and metaphor for repressed history that refuses silence. The scream from the crypt is the return of the repressed, the re…

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Mash-ups & Live Pairings
  • The Great War — Liverpool, Night 2, Death by a Thousand Cuts / The Great War — Indianapolis, Night 3