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🙡 Joanna Newsom - Divers 🙣


Exploring time in the Amora Obscura



Feeling like I need to write some big, complete summation for divers, but I don't want to write an encyclopedia entry (even though it'd be nice to have with how some of the secrets & doors to be unlocked on Divers have prerequisites in Keatsian poetry (Anecdotes), the history of nyc & obscure painting lore (Sapokanikan), Californian geography (Goose Eggs), astrophysics (101st Lightborne), Upanishad-adjacent spirituality (Pin-Light Bent), Greek mythology (Joy as a Symptom), Newsom's personal life (which should stay private), firsthand experience of romance, despair, death, childbirth, moving, and so on, to only speak of the lyrical content). I want to write about Divers as a tool for developing my own understanding and experience of the album like how the reason I had such intense emotional experiences with Ys was because I put it into my own life in ways Newsom left open.



WIP




Composed: My 25th Early Spring, Waning Gibbous





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