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“In the exploded doctrine of sympathies, you are directed, if you have cut your finger, to let that alone, and put your plaister upon the knife. This is very bad doctrine, I must confess.”
Anna Letitia Barbauld, What is Education, 1798.

Gil Scott-Heron — Home Is Where the Hatred Is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSpBs1ghyoo

Overdue punishment of mages exalts convened Fenris.
Rissa leads Tevinter mage Feynriel to earn death wish.
Thus a prideful Saemus undertakes parricide rebellion.
Aristocracy & clergy revenge shake Arishok & templar.

Randy Crawford & Joe Sample — Lead Me On:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHMU3AqQLOo

“After dinner he showed me what he called his garden. 
A sweet, delicate smell of heliotrope came from a small patch of flowering beans; it was not wafted to us by a gentle breeze from home, but by a wild Newfoundland wind which had no connexion with the exiled plant, no attractive element of reminiscence or delight. In this perfume which was no longer breathed in by beauty, purified in its breast, or diffused in its wake, in this perfume of a changed dawn, a different culture, another world, there lingered all the melancholy of nostalgia, absence, and youth.”
F. R. Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, Marine Games.

[« Après le dîner, il me montrait ce qu’il appelait son jardin.
Une odeur fine et suave d’héliotrope s’exhalait d’un petit carré de fèves en fleurs, elle ne nous était point apportée par une brise de la patrie, mais par un vent sauvage de Terre Neuve, sans relation avec la plante exilée sans sympathie de réminiscence et de volupté. Dans ce parfum non respiré de la beauté, non épuré dans son sein, non répandu sur ses traces, dans ce parfum chargé d’aurore, de culture et de monde, il y avait toutes les mélancolies des regrets, de l’absence et de la jeunesse. »
F. R. vicomte de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe, Livre 6, Chapitre 5 Jeux marins.]