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  "title": "March 24 - Dutch Orchestra Blues",
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        "plaintext": "Not a blues, let's start there.  Which is pedantic and silly about a song that's joyful and silly.  And also sad."
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        "plaintext": "This is a sing about faith in the hidden things.  About yearning for the reassurance that better things are happening somewhere, just a little too quiet for you to hear but there nonetheless."
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        "plaintext": "I find songs of faith fascinating not because I have no faith or because there aren't things that I need to be true but because my own... whatever it is... operates on different terms.  I fear uncertainty, but what I fear more is the idea that I could be certain and wrong.  I just want to know.  But then again, I just want to know."
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        "plaintext": "So maybe the orchestra's playing.  But I'd rather the sad uncertainty of the quiet than the feeling that I should know what it sounds like."
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  "description": "Not a blues, let's start there. Which is pedantic and silly about a song that's joyful and silly. And also sad. This is a sing about faith in the hidden things. About yearning for the reassurance that better things are happening somewhere, just a little too quiet for you to hear but there nonetheless. I find songs of faith fascinating not because I have no faith or because there aren't things that I need to be true but because my own... whatever it is... operates on different terms. I fear uncer...",
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  "textContent": "Not a blues, let's start there.  Which is pedantic and silly about a song that's joyful and silly.  And also sad.\nThis is a sing about faith in the hidden things.  About yearning for the reassurance that better things are happening somewhere, just a little too quiet for you to hear but there nonetheless.\nI find songs of faith fascinating not because I have no faith or because there aren't things that I need to be true but because my own... whatever it is... operates on different terms.  I fear uncertainty, but what I fear more is the idea that I could be certain and wrong.  I just want to know.  But then again, I just want to know.\nSo maybe the orchestra's playing.  But I'd rather the sad uncertainty of the quiet than the feeling that I should know what it sounds like."
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