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Your Brain on Art
- How the Arts Transform Us
- By: Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
- Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Many of us think of the arts as entertainment - a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture and more are essential to our lives. We're on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone.
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Validating and uplifting
- By K. Groves on 24-03-26
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Your Brain on Art
- How the Arts Transform Us
- Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- By: Rick Rubin
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance741
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.
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Useful advice, but it is steeped in unscientific bunk of the highest degree
- By Raymond jensen on 23-01-23
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-01-23
- Language: English
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Galahad at Blandings
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall95
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Performance80
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Story81
A major mix-up at Blandings Castle, in which Galahad introduces yet another imposter to Lord Emsworth's residence and the Empress of Blandings gets sloshed in her sty. Formidable comic characters designed to interrupt Lord Emsworth's peace include his overbearing sister Lady Hermione Wedge who comes complete her own meddling secretary, and Dame Daphne Winkworth who has her eye on becoming the next Countess. As ever the stage is set for Gally to try and restore order to the ensuing chaos!
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Great Nonsense!
- By Mrs. E. D'agostino on 26-11-16
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Galahad at Blandings
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-02-12
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall565
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Performance493
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Story494
If magic has a beginning, can it also have an end? When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas. But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about. Upset elves, reindeers dropping out of the sky, angry trolls and the chance that Christmas might be cancelled.
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- By Kindle Customer on 19-01-17
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Series: A Boy Called Christmas, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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Evie and the Animals
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall145
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Performance122
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Story121
Evie is a little girl with a special talent. She can talk to animals. But when she rescues the school rabbit Gerald, and sets him free, Evie lands in big trouble. She promises her dad never to talk to animals again. For a whole year, Evie ignores them all. She doesn’t chat to the birds and dogs. She even ignores a little silver tabby cat who miaows: ‘Help me! Help me!’ But when Evie sees the same silver kitten on a missing poster, she secretly starts using her magical gift again.
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Fairly nice.
- By MG on 20-02-21
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Evie and the Animals
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-06-19
- Language: English
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A Corruption of Blood
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 3
- By: Ambrose Parry
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron, Bryan Dick
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance162
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Story160
Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back in the townhouse of Dr James Simpson, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but when word reaches her that a woman has recently obtained a medical degree despite her gender, Sarah decides to seek her out.
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The high standard of the series maintained
- By Kirstine on 24-09-21
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A Corruption of Blood
- Raven, Fisher and Simpson, Book 3
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron, Bryan Dick
- Series: Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-21
- Language: English
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Burmese Days
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,046
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Performance946
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Story940
An unabridged recording of Orwell's brilliant first novel read by Allan Corduner. The story is largely based on Orwell's own experiences as a police officer in Burma. Set in the dying days of the Raj, it depicts the harshness and darker side of colonial rule. And at its centre is John Flory, a lone individual hopelessly trapped in a vast political system; themes which set the agenda for much of his writing. Burmese Days was Orwell's first novel, and was issued in 1934 in America, then a year later in the UK where there had been fears and controversy initially that the material could be libellous.
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A wonderful listen
- By Chelin on 05-12-12
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Burmese Days
- Narrated by: Allan Corduner
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 18-10-12
- Language: English
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A Mouse Called Miika
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance73
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Story72
This is a tale of mice and magic. It is also a tale of great love (of cheese) and great danger. And learning the lesson that what matters most - when it comes to cheese and life - is not how strongly you smell but how strong you are on the inside.
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Amazing
- By Kindle Customer on 21-12-22
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A Mouse Called Miika
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Series: A Boy Called Christmas, Book 4
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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A Whole Life
- By: Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins - translation
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are. Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood, his home.
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A Whole Life
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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The Gift of Rain
- By: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Eric Mok
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance63
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Story63
Penang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship with Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat. Philip shows his new friend around his adored island of Penang, and in return Endo trains him in the art and discipline of aikido. But such friendship comes at a terrible price.
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Takes a while to get into
- By Mr C. on 02-09-24
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The Gift of Rain
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Eric Mok
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall222
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Performance219
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Story219
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.
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Thank you
- By Kym on 10-03-25
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The Penelopiad
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Margaret Atwood
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall414
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Performance365
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Story367
For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan War was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over 100 lustful, greedy, and bloodthirsty suitors at bay.... And then, when Odysseus finally returns and slaughters the murderous suitors, he hangs Penelope's 12 maids.
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A retelling of a story that adds new facets.
- By Wras on 10-03-15
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The Penelopiad
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington, Margaret Atwood
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-06-12
- Language: English
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The Raw Shark Texts
- By: Steven Hall
- Narrated by: Jack Davenport
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall40
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Performance35
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Story36
Welcome to Unspace Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. So begins a thrilling adventure that will send Eric and his cynical cat Ian on a search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows its secrets.
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so much cut
- By Charlie Cave on 17-02-24
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The Raw Shark Texts
- Narrated by: Jack Davenport
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-10-11
- Language: English
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The Helmet of Horror
- The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
- By: Victor Pelevin
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur’s labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century Minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chat rooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself.
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The Helmet of Horror
- The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 16-07-12
- Language: English
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The April Dead
- Harry McCoy, Book 4
- By: Alan Parks
- Narrated by: Andrew McIntosh
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance36
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When an American sailor from the Holy Loch Base goes missing, Harry McCoy is determined to find him. But as he investigates, a wave of bombings hits Glasgow - with the threat of more to come. Soon McCoy realises that the sailor may be part of a shadowy organisation committed to a very different kind of Scotland. One they are prepared to kill for.
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Another goodie.
- By GAIL MCGOWAN on 13-05-22
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The April Dead
- Harry McCoy, Book 4
- Narrated by: Andrew McIntosh
- Series: A Harry McCoy Thriller, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- By: Dina Nayeri
- Narrated by: Dlna Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance37
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What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar. With this comes the weight of the expectations (and fears and resentment) of those born in the host country; foremost is the burden of gratitude: to be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed.
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Dina is so gifted and so brave!
- By ARIA on 20-06-20
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- Narrated by: Dlna Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- By: Jo Marchant
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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We feel that the present is everything; all we can know. Yet physics finds no universal ’now’. To explore what a moment really is, In Search of Now draws on state-of-the-art discoveries in neuroscience, psychology, cosmology and quantum physics, revealing a dynamic, creative process in which we all play a part.
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In Search of Now
- The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- Narrated by: Jo Marchant
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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Your Life Without Me
- By: James Meek
- Narrated by: Chris Nayak
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Mr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police. He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a man once intimately connected with the Burman family. It asks what a person leaves behind when they've gone, and how much of the past we can carry with us into the future.
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Your Life Without Me
- Narrated by: Chris Nayak
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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The Essential King James Bible
- By: Martin Jarvis
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The King James Version of The Bible was first published in 1611, and aside from small modernisations in spelling, has stayed true to the original manuscript ever since. Originally produced to quell tensions in England over which Bible Translation was the truer to use in the Church of England, the KJV is now the most widely-used version of the Bible. The keys to the version’s success have been simplicity of language and majesty in execution and presentation.
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Excellent
- By Jinty on 23-06-21
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The Essential King James Bible
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-08-13
- Language: English
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Totem
- The Untold Story of Sculpture
- By: Jo Baring
- Narrated by: Jo Baring
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In this accessible, story-led journey into the heart of sculpture, renowned art historian and curator Jo Baring explores creativity, memory and why we have been driven to make art in this medium since the very beginning of humanity. She examines sculptures from the pre-historic Lion Man figure found in a German cave to an ancient Mayan pyramid that conjures a serpent made of shadows and icons of the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo's devastating Pietà.
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