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prose 49 subtextual 49 suffuses 49 poetic 49 laceratingly 49 elegiac tone 49 kitchen sink realism 49 philosophical musings 49 psychodramas 49 sonic collage 49 writerly 48 lonesomeness 48 seriocomic 48 inescapability 48 memento mori 48 wistful longing 48 introspection 48 existential angst 48 mordant 48 catharses 48 reveries 48 plangent 48 wry witty 48 absurdist humor 48 wistful 48 Sans Soleil 48 lyrical prose 48 existential despair 48 allusive 48 finitude 48 philosophical ruminations 47 Delmore Schwartz 47 Unrequited love 47 corporeality 47 easeful 47 solitariness 47 wryly humorous 47 discursive 47 coda 47 self loathing 47 ode 47 distractedness 47 talky 47 slackerdom 47 Existentialism 47 ruefulness 47 navel gazing 47 quotidian 47 hokiness 47 interiority 47 lyrical sensibility 47 evanescence 47 shatteringly 47 meanderings 47 preachiness 47 riff 47 solipsistic 47 invigoratingly 47 emotional catharsis 47 lyrical passages 47 mordantly funny 47 Lonely Crowd 47 heart rendingly 47 cri de coeur 47 lyrical imagery 47 poetic prose 47 lyrical 47 Pinteresque 47 mournfulness 47 dissonant 47 lyricism 47 idealization 47 limns 47 loneliness 47 deconstructions 47 Sophoclean 47 shoe gazing 47 formlessness 47 self indulgently 46 eroticism 46 opus 46 profounder 46 thoroughly engrossing 46 endlessness 46 profundities 46 Chekhovian 46 romanticism 46 achingly funny 46 existential dread 46 Mahlerian 46 descriptive passages 46 rhapsodic 46 immanence 46 psychodrama 46 Kore eda 46 Dichterliebe 46 bildungsroman 46 hauntingly 46 ponderousness 46 reflections 46 reverie 46 impermanence 46 strange juxtapositions 46 Shavian 46 melodicism 46 Melancholic 46 Almereyda 46 sonic experimentation 46 bleakly comic 46 chromatic harmonies 46 lyrical themes 46 veers wildly 46 incantatory 46 Movie Masochist 46 disquietingly 46 repressed sexuality 46 pranksterism 46 moroseness 46 phantasmagoria 46 unabashedly romantic 46 rivetingly 46 dolorous 46 Godfrey Reggio 46 Orphée 46 isolated unsocial 46 arioso 46 sentimentalizing 46 dirge 46 rhapsodies 46 obsessions 46 piano ballad 46 blackly funny 46 fugue 46 darkly amusing 46 wistfulness 46 lyric poetry 46 angst ridden 46 atonality 46 tragicomedy 46 philosophical rumination 46 ostinatos 46 Absurdist 46 existential musings 46 onanistic 45 drifty 45 screwball farce 45 Shostakovich symphony 45 literal mindedness 45 bittersweetness 45 erotics 45 sheer strangeness 45 stark realism 45 Kay Redfield Jamison 45 overfamiliar 45 metaphysical musings 45 confessional songwriting 45 Monkish 45 transcendence 45 dryly witty 45 Imaginary Heroes 45 soaringly 45 excursus 45 concision 45 intellectualized 45 child's eye 45 digressive 45 lush romanticism 45 impressionistic 45 existential crises 45 visceral 45 '#s psychedelia 45 allegory 45 wistful melancholy 45 didacticism 45 mawkish 45 aimlessness 45 epigrammatic 45 accelerando 45 wonderings 45 naval gazing 45 moodiness 45 poesy 45 longueur 45 indeterminacy 45 Alfred Kazin 45 Superficiality 45 playlet 45 existentialism 45 self indulgent 45 Dostoevskian 45 mordant wit 45 polemic 45 Shaggs 45 koans 45 slyer 45 nocturne 45 disarmingly funny 45 tragicomic 45 poetic musings 45 darkly comic 45 affectingly 45 grotesquerie 45 Keats poem 45 psychoanalytically 45 explication 45 unrelievedly 45 chaconne 45 Vexations 45 lyrically 45 nocturnes 45 adolescent angst 45 screwball romance 45 disquisitions 45 cogitation 45 juvenilia 45 jokiness 45 guitar noodling 45 Wowee Zowee 45 anomic 45 poeticism 45 sonic explorations 45 melodic riffs 45 narratives 45 visually ravishing 45 neurosis 45 mawkishly 45 unaffecting 45 viscerally thrilling 45 disembodiment 45 miserablism 45 engrossing tale 45 authorial voice 45 self mythologising 45 Bergmanesque 45 Stimmung 45 absurdism 45 dystopian vision 45 Brooding 45 psychologizing 45 juxtapositions 45 familial discord 45 achingly 44 ironic detachment 44 animality 44 Ravel La Valse 44 Grosse Fugue 44 portentous 44 Workingman Blues 44 postmodern irony 44 overly melodramatic 44 fantasia 44 ennui 44 woolgathering 44 kineticism 44 pathos 44 meta narratives 44 Resnais 44 carnality 44 self indulgence 44 dirgelike 44 Ennui 44 attraction repulsion 44 Sturm und Drang 44 Funny Ha Ha 44 Drunk Enough 44 self referential 44 sentimentality 44 Faulknerian 44 unflinching portrait 44 apercus 44 objective correlative 44 doomy 44 Cusk 44 emotionalism 44 belabors 44 side splittingly 44 idealizations 44 poignant 44 hypnagogic 44 tragi comedy 44 jamais vu 44 sentimentalized 44 hymnlike 44 timeless fable 44 evocative imagery 44 Freudianism 44 aphoristic 44 lugubrious 44 Ashbery 44 documentarylike 44 Wayne Shorter Footprints 44 self reflexive 44 treatise 44 slightness 44 unknowability 44 finely shaded 44 Achingly 44 dissonant harmonies 44 unsatisfyingly 44 Enigma Variations 44 tuneful 44 ungraspable 44 haunting 44 lit crit 44 textural richness 44 youthful infatuation 44 fleetingness 44 interludes 44 melodic passages 44 moral ambiguities 44 frolicsome 44 introspective lyrics 44 limn 44 waltzy 44 Duino Elegies 44 directorial flourishes 44 wistful ballad 44 intellectualising 44 moody 44 melodramatic 44 acoustic ballads 44 acoustic ballad 44 hypnotic repetition 44 avoids sentimentality 44 cogitations 44 uncanniness 44 JG Ballard Crash 44 existentialist 44 oedipal 44 bagatelles 44 Unrequited Love 44 unrequited love 44 metaphysical 44 plaintive piano 44 bedazzlement 44 neurotic 44 deconstruction 44 primal scream therapy 44 perceiver 44 Sartrean 44 darkly funny 44 Ugly Organ 44 jarring juxtapositions 44 dreaminess 44 Red Barked Tree 44 acoustic strumming 44 philosophize 44 romantic roundelay 44 soliloquy 44 swooningly 44 darkly comical 44 psychologically astute 44 sadnesses 44 haunting ballad 44 self pity 44 imagistic 44 grand guignol 44 self pitying 44 Alfred Schnittke 44 Ford Madox Ford 44 explications 44 bleakly humorous 44 theatrical artifice 44 folk balladry 44 historicism 44 Beethovenian 44 rollicks 44 engrossingly 44 metaphorical meanings 44 Conradian 44 piano arpeggios 44 prose poems 44 droning guitars 44 Bigger Than Life 44 banality 44 disjunctions 43 Benito Cereno 43 Witches Sabbath 43 minimalist composer 43 rootlessness 43 Spufford 43 brooding introspective 43 romantic fable 43 weirdnesses 43 Durang 43 amour fou 43 archness 43 hopelessness helplessness 43 transportive 43 suspenseful tale 43 utter randomness 43 Kepesh 43 Autobiographical 43 Lacrymosa 43 jouissance 43 jagged rhythms 43 philosophising 43 vividly captures 43 facetiousness 43 frissons 43 oneiric 43 morbid 43 spaciness 43 aestheticized 43 exegesis 43 unflinching realism 43 wry 43 presentiment 43 instrumental interlude 43 profundity 43 achingly sincere 43 soft shoed 43 lushly romantic 43 illuminative 43 mythologising 43 Nihilism 43 Dissonance 43 Goldengrove 43 mawkishness 43 bathos 43 rueful 43 Maeterlinck 43 unexpected juxtapositions 43 freneticism 43 angsty 43 Douglas Sirk melodrama 43 gigue 43 dramma giocoso 43 existential loneliness 43 aural equivalent 43 Georges Bataille 43 lovelorn lyrics 43 operatic grandeur 43 recriminatory 43 hedonistically 43 macrocosmic 43 unrepressed 43 pop ditties 43 Nénette 43 sweetly nostalgic 43 Lovecats 43 autobiographical essays 43 epiphanies 43 ecstasies 43 Beautifully Broken 43 protag 43 emotionality 43 languorous 43 fretfulness 43 atonal 43 postmodern pastiche 43 droll 43 unflinchingly honest 43 balladic 43 darkly hued 43 Beatlesque 43 tearjerking 43 Gaston Bachelard 43 densely layered 43 onanism 43 Prozac Nation 43 pentameter 43 melodic sensibility 43 subtexts 43 Ophüls 43 intertextual 43 narrative 43 emotionally constipated 43 avant gardism 43 genre tropes 43 Kozelek 43 cartoonishness 43 searingly 43 absurdist 43 euphony 43 authorial 43 Mobius strip 43 crepuscular 43 heartbreakingly poignant 43 deconstructive 43 balladry 43 banal 43 foregrounding 43 ineffably sad 43 grindingly 43 Preoccupation 43 mundanity 43 achingly poignant 43 Idioteque 43 soliloquies 43 unmelodic 43 metafiction 43 revelatory 43 orchestral interludes 43 J Alfred Prufrock 43 intensely pleasurable 43 sly satire 43 fascinatingly 43 rawly 43 deftly captures 43 Lacombe Lucien 43 maundering 43 Siegfried Idyll 43 Lyrically 43 Forgetfulness 43 daydreamy 43 theorizing 43 inconsequentiality 43 morality tale 43 sordidness 43 cloy 43 broodingly 43 expository passages 43 toneless 43 skronk 43 odes 43 playlets 43 redemptive 43 Hissing Fauna 43 oeuvre 43 meaninglessness 43 masterwork 43 Ellingtonian 43 repetition compulsion 43 unquiet 43 baroquely 42 Holy Sonnets 42 aching tenderness 42 humor pathos 42 Beethoven Coriolan Overture 42 rockish 42 sappiness 42 mindless repetition 42 primordially 42 subtle interplay 42 dissonance 42 ballad 42 metaphoric 42 suburban ennui 42 riffing 42 beastliness 42 numbing repetition 42 opuses 42 layered vocals 42 blackly humorous 42 archetypally 42 artless 42 unreliable narrators 42 orchestral swells 42 De Quincey 42 twentysomething angst 42 Schopenhauer 42 acerbity 42 spareness 42 transcendentalism 42 Camera Lucida 42 Wistful 42 Schubert Unfinished Symphony 42 Expressionistic 42 aliveness 42 romantic melodrama 42 dailiness 42 arpeggiated chords 42 Melancholy 42 recurrent themes 42 referentiality 42 Hitchcockian suspense 42 monologues 42 sounding trite 42 surrealism 42 cuckoldry 42 Piano Variations 42 Romanticism 42 suffocatingly 42 pleasures 42 throughline 42 Awkwardness 42 sidesplitting comedy 42 harmonically rich 42 Communing 42 Verging 42 recurring motif 42 deadpan wit 42 Crabwalk 42 darkly atmospheric 42 self referentiality 42 artspeak 42 quasi autobiographical 42 deftly woven 42 Widow Story 42 novelistic 42 lovesickness 42 Unanswered Question 42 cutesiness 42 foregrounded 42 arrestingly 42 existential dilemma 42 knowingness 42 lyric 42 Benjamin Markovits 42 Metamorphosen 42 repressed desires 42 heartfelt ballad 42 Leos Janácek 42 raucously funny 42 German expressionists 42 Nabokov Lolita 42 vivifying 42 heartwarming tales 42 synth melodies 42 miserabilism 42 Elegiac 42 Unrequited 42 Pirandellian 42 ramble 42 whimsy 42 hyper realism 42 philosopher Hannah Arendt 42 Chopin nocturnes 42 penetratingly 42 solipsist 42 Arthur Schopenhauer 42 intimations 42 richly satisfying 42 overwrought melodrama 42 sombreness 42 bombast 42 overwrought 42 semiautobiographical 42 meditation 42 strophic 42 languor 42 Proustian 42 darker recesses 42 Lucy Grealy 42 Louis MacNeice 42 sweetly melodic 42 cantankerousness 42 figurations 42 pointillistic 42 synthesizer riff 42 Requiems 42 novel Mrs. Dalloway 42 sparse instrumentation 42 effaces 42 Kubrickian 42 anecdotage 42 Dostoevsky novel 42 Sentimentality 42 Schubertian 42 didactic 42 tunefulness 42 refreshingly unsentimental 42 transgressive 42 Homeric epic 42 orchestral showpiece 42 Janácek 42 Slouching Towards Bethlehem 42 Wartime Prayers 42 poetical 42 Bright Sided 42 Hammerklavier 42 intricate wordplay 42 Schreker 42 cello sonata 42 overly sentimental 42 lovelessness 42 danceable groove 42 disjunction 42 psychoanalytic theory 42 bitingly satirical 42 repeated listenings 42 pastiche 42 oddly unsatisfying 42 formalism 42 literalized 42 wry asides 42 virtually plotless 42 mournful 42 acedia 42 Ruders 42 Liebestod 42 Lipstick Traces 42 denouements 42 anomie 42 dreamier 42 Symphonie Fantastique 42 Bildungsroman 42 slyly humorous 42 Twelfth Night Shakespeare 42 thuddingly 42 picaresque tale 42 childhood traumas 42 whispery vocals 42 atmospheric soundscapes 42 wryly amusing 42 darkling 42 happenstances 42 hair raisingly 42 timelessly 42 Ernest Chausson 42 erotic overtones 42 medias res 42 fuzz toned 42 La Valse 42 shoe gazer 42 multicharacter 42 suspenseful thriller 42 shtik 42 liltingly 42 experimentalism 42 codas 42 Beethoven sonata 42 Wordsworthian 42 voyeuristically 42 soul crushingly 42 Transcendental 42 melodic invention 42 ineffable sadness 42 Ivan Ilyich 42 savage satire 42 diaristic 42 limning 42 Atrocity Exhibition 42 intellectualizing 42 counterpointing 42 chromaticism 42 synth washes 42 reductive 42 synthesized strings 42 Sentimental 42 thumos 42 enfeeblement 42 compulsively readable 42 indirectness 42 catastrophizing 42 traumatisation 42 twilit 42 Pensive 42 pseudo intellectualism 42 sonorities 42 inescapably 42 suffused 42 handheld camerawork 42 piano balladry 42 obliqueness 42 eros 42 poignantly captures 42 numinous 42 alterna pop 42 Hermann Broch 42 Dadaism 42 Lo fi 42 emotional neediness 42 insipidness 42 Altmanesque 42 poetic lyricism 42 cinéma vérité 41 academicism 41 unbearably poignant 41 Neo Classicism 41 delightfully witty 41 melodic fragments 41 Nabokovian 41 dryly humorous 41 neo psychedelia 41 fin de siècle 41 Chinaberry Sidewalks 41 unforgettable melodies 41 liminality 41 temporality 41 lingeringly 41 mundaneness 41 Hypochondria 41 Thematically 41 sublimity 41 nostalgic reverie 41 Sleeplessness 41 aleatoric 41 wildly uneven 41 Mind numbing 41 Amy Hempel 41 Bachian 41 poetically 41 Jessold 41 balladeering 41 irrepressibility 41 weepie 41 yackety yak 41 playwright Donald Margulies 41 slyly witty 41 unignorable 41 melodic interludes 41 wistful melodies 41 child's eye view 41 woundedness 41 synth laden 41 metaphor 41 Conceit 41 Tina Landau 41 sensual pleasures 41 coloristic 41 andante 41 psychological underpinnings 41 Kurtág 41 Hirokazu Kore eda 41 poetic meditations 41 Existential 41 Stephen Dolginoff 41 Regular Lovers 41 bracingly 41 aperçu 41 Ms. Hymowitz 41 Kharms 41 jeu d' esprit 41 irresolution 41 mawkish sentimentality 41 riffs 41 subtheme 41 constructivists 41 maunderings 41 Herzogian 41 inexhaustibly 41 soap operatics 41 Wellesian 41 Moral Disorder 41 Lacrimosa 41 Whitsun Weddings 41 jauntiness 41 Woody Allen Stardust Memories 41 utterly unsentimental 41 overly preachy 41 blues inflected 41 Imperial Bedrooms 41 narcotized 41 lassitude 41 impassivity 41 Boarding Gate 41 lucidity 41 surreal dreamlike 41 cherishable 41 Brontë sisters 41 aural wallpaper 41 Whitmanesque 41 fable 41 performativity 41 Allegro moderato 41 filmic 41 Shakespeare Sonnets 41 Forgetful Heart 41 Transfigured Night 41 familial strife 41 reclusion 41 sentimentalizes 41 divertimento 41 bleakly funny 41 Ma Mère 41 sweetly melancholic 41 florid prose 41 neo romanticism 41 Victorianism 41 catchiest tune 41 toccata 41 achingly sad 41 SubUrbia 41 endless repetition 41 sardonic 41 unnamable 41 triptych 41 descriptive prose 41 Four Quartets 41 dramatization 41 quasi mystical 41 Modern Guilt 41 Andrew Bovell 41 plinky 41 poetic monologues 41 Oedipus complex 41 picaresque 41 explores 41 acidulous 41 Keith Reddin 41 emotional shadings 41 Diabelli Variations 41 phenomenology 41 elisions 41 Gypsy Biker 41 pathological narcissism 41 sappy sentimental 41 neo Romantic 41 adolescent sexuality 41 propulsive 41 humourlessness 41 warm fuzziness 41 bitingly funny 41 Pelevin 41 mythmaking 41 countermelodies 41 Kreisleriana 41 poet Theodore Roethke 41 weightiness 41 peroration 41 ineffable 41 appassionato 41 existentialists 41 hauntingly lovely 41 polymorphous 41 Idiosyncratic 41 richly layered 41 polymorphous perversity 41 epiphenomena 41 queasily 41 whispery 41 melodically 41 prolixity 41 catharsis 41 noodlings 41 fearfulness 41 freakiness 41 postlude 41 ironist 41 delicately nuanced 41 strummy 41 Have witticism 41 Acutely 41 poignancy 41 meditatively 41 gothically 41 sexlessness 41 Separate Lies 41 guitar jangle 41 harmonic richness 41 aching loneliness 41 mindfuck 41 relational aesthetics 41 sly humor 41 transcendentally