Category: Northern Fires
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Altered Carbon the novel that inspired the Netflix Series is on sale for 3 bucks today.
This is one of the books referenced in Silent Planet’s Northern Fires, so feel free to grab it if you are following along in that blog series.
Introduction #NorthernFires
Ration my breath - terror clandestine in my chest
These are the opening words in Silent Planet’s - Northern Fires (Guernica), from the album When the End Began.
And thus begins a series where we’ll examine the lyrics and read through the annotations for this song.
“Wait, a song has annotations?” Yes! Silent Planet produces footnotes for their lyrics, citing influences and quotes. Northern Fires has 19! (You can read more about them in the syllabus post.)
To follow along on this journey, you can add [the feed](https://blo g.grotenhuis.info/categories/northern-fires/feed.xml) to your reader, or visit the posts page to catch all the entries. The video of the song (with lyrics and footnotes) is available here.
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