Day Trips for Nihilists

On Melancholy


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Running order of the 'culturescape':


  • A Young Blackbird Dies in My Hands, Appernack
  • Hamlet soliloquy 'I have of late but wherefore I know not...' from the film Withnail & I (1989, Richard E Grant as Withnail)
  • Dido's Lament - 'When I Am Laid in Earth' from Dido & Aeneas, Henry Purcell - Kirsten Flagstad
  • Philip Larkin reading his poem Home Is So Sad
  • Chopin's Prelude 13, Op.28 played by Alfred Cortot
  • 'The Optimism of Melancholia | Slavoj Žižek | Big Think' (excerpt)
  • Fading Lights Are Fading, Set Fire To Flames
  • Clip from Melancholia - 'Justine and Claire' (2011, Lars von Trier)
  • Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde prelude
  • Various field recordings from freesound.org


For more info about the curator: neil-fitzgerald.com


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Day Trips for NihilistsBy Neil Fitzgerald