March 2010
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Maple Leaves (EP Version)
Jens Lekman
The Avalanches built their classic Since I Left You from samples of AM-radio gold and kicked off the party with a simple greeting: Welcome to paradise. On his 2003 single “Maple Leaves”, Jens Lekman tries a similar trick, pulling samples from The Mamas and The Papas, The Left Banke and Glen Campbell, but for a hapless romantic like Jens such paradise is bewildering. He can scarcely understand his companion here, confusing “make believe” for “maple leaves” and The Fall for autumn. Such miscommunication he warns will drive him to madness—and so goes poor Jens, a casualty to make-believe.
Atheism linked to higher IQ
Participants who said they were atheists had an average IQ of 103 in adolescence, while adults who said they were religious averaged 97, the study found. Atheism “allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion,” Bailey said.
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“Our external symbols must always express the life within us with absolute precision; how could they do otherwise, since that life has generated them? Therefore we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, for the symbols themselves have no control over their own fleshly manifestations, however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.”
—Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve
