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James Joyce Alternate Reality Game: "Don't Believe the Church and State and Everything They Tell You!", "Can you Hear Me?" "Can you hear me Calling You?"

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Don't believe the church and state
And everything they tell you ( Romans 11:32 )
Believe in me, I'm with the high command!
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you? !DublinNight@lemm.ee
Can you hear me, can you hear me running?
Can you hear me running, can you hear me calling you? !JamesJoyceExperience@lemm.ee

2 comments

  • "For promotional reasons, the song's title was extended to "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" (the parenthetical title being the title of the film in the UK), even though the lyrics have no connection to the film. The promotional video for the song features a few clips from the film, but primarily follows the story of the lyrics, which are about an astronaut trying to send a message to the past in order to warn his family of an imminent societal breakdown." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_Canyon

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKim2FPgGp8
    15,360 views January 21, 2015

    "Dear Future Historians..."

    I never walked on the moon
    I never saw the pyramids
    I was never struck by famine or fortune
    I'll never experience the world you inhabit
    I'll never experience the world you inhabit
    I never swam with dolphins
    I never sang from a mountaintop
    I was no inventor and no archaeologist
    I fret not, I fret not
    For I've made my own discovery
    I fret not, I fret not
    For I've made my own discovery
    I fret not, I fret not, I fret not
    I fret not, I fret not, I fret not
    Just put your weight on my shoulders
    For when I dive into your iris
    My brain erupts
    Into biochemical mayhem
    And I feel like a man with two hearts, with two hearts

  • "The song's original title was simply "Silent Running"; the name extension was given when the song was chosen to appear in the 1986 movie On Dangerous Ground, which was titled Choke Canyon in the United States. The single was re-released in the UK in January 1986 to tie-in with the film, and peaked at No. 21 in the UK charts. The song was banned by the BBC during the Gulf War due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, "There's a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway."" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running_(On_Dangerous_Ground)

    "Don't believe the church and state" ... "The song was banned by the BBC during the Gulf War due to its address of war, nationalism and religion"

     

    "December 7, 1933. Court Lifts Ban on 'Ulysses' Here. By THE NEW YORK TIMES. James Joyce's "Ulysses," a novel which has been banned from the United States by customs censors on the ground that it might cause American readers to harbor "impure and lustful thoughts," found a champion yesterday in the United States District Court. Federal Judge John M. Woolsey, after devoting almost a month of his time to reading the book, ruled in an opinion which he filed in court that "Ulysses" not only was not obscene in a legal sense, but that it was a work of literary merit." - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-court.html