This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the first letter, which is by Abelard. It discusses the consolation Abelard attempts to provide his fried by recounting the story of his life, which includes his romantic, intellectual, and sexual involvement with Heloise, their marriage, his castration, and their taking religious vows and entering monastic life.

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 1 - A History Of Abelard's Calamities - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the second letter, which is by Heloise. It discusses the arguments that she advances in the letter, which center on her view that they can continue to enjoy their married relationship through writing letters to each other, even though after Abelard's castration both of them took religious vows and began monastic life.

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 2 - Married Love and Religious Life - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the third letter, which is by Abelard. It discusses Heloise's proposal that although they have taken monastic vows, they can rightly enjoy some married life together through writing letters to each other, and Abelard's rejection of that suggestion. He tell her that they both must turn to God and make Christian perfection their goal, even if that means leaving their amorous relationship behind, and he tells her that by his own confessions, he intends to change her love into contempt or hatred for him.

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Heloise and Abelard - Letter 3 - Love, Virtue, Duty, and God - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the sequence of letters between two great Medieval intellectuals, lovers, and religious Heloise D'Argenteuil and Peter Abelard

It focuses specifically on the fifth and sixth letters, which are by Heloise and Abelard respectfully. In these letters both of the married lovers have opted for leaving their previous amorous and conjugal love behind and shifting their attention to God. They also both admit their ongoing struggles to see this commitment through consistently.

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Heloise and Abelard - Letters 5-6 - Struggling Against Passion - Sadler's Lectures

Thirty letters, in no chronogical order; I'm writing you letters about the things that make us better.

The only answer is that we have a good reason to believe in the power of our internal compass. We are not going anywhere until we have lived in the moment. Life peaks in every moment you experience for the first time, and there are many ways to do it without having to worry too much. You will find yourself in a world where you will never know what is going to happen.

And then, by sheer will, you may just find solace in every letter about the things that make us better.

I’m letting go of that balloon that held me back. The new thing that keeps me going is my heart.

Unmixed tracklisting
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Jimmy Nail - Ain’t No Doubt
Maribou State, Holly Walker - Nervous Tics
RY X feat. Hermanos Gutiérrez - You
Cubicolor - Nights In Bloom
Röyksopp - Forsaken Cowboy
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes
The Smiths - The Boy with the Thorn In His Side
Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked (Joris Voorn Remix)
Durante - Delusions of Grandeur
Sofi Tukker, Nonô - Pick Up The Phone
Au/Ra, CamelPhat - Panic Room
Blossoms - The Keeper
Foals - My Number
Holy Ghost - It Gets Dark
Broken Bells - Holding On For Life
Mike Oldfield feat. Maggie Reilly - Moonlight Shadow
Ace - How Long
Prefab Sprout - Cars & Girls
Confidence Man - Out The Window
X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne - Lazy
Moony - Dove (I’ll Be Loving You)
Grum - Shout
Chrome Sparks - Send The Pain On
Gold Panda - Snow & Taxis
Tourist - Elixir
Mura Masa, Georgia - Live Like We’re Dancing
Amy Wiles, Leena Punks & flowanastasia - Heard It All Before
Halfaway - Runaway

Letter 012 - 02:08, Wide Awake; The Starry Night

A quiet refuge in the late-night hours. SirenCode’s new Trap-Soul / Lo-Fi track, "Letters from the Library" (from the Echo Spirit album), is a whispered defense of intellectual freedom. Perfect for Study Sessions, Chill Vibes, Rainy Day Tunes, and Deep Reflection.
Tell us: What does the phrase "Don't Black Out The Margins Of Me" mean to you in the comments?
The Story Behind the Track
Letters from the Library is set in the quiet hours of the stacks, blending warm Rhodes chords and the sound of pages turning with a deep, modern Trap-Soul 808 pulse and vinyl crackle.

This track is an intimate response to the unprecedented rise in book bans, which recently surged to thousands of instances across the country. The song is for those fighting to ensure that all voices—especially those representing the lived experiences of marginalized communities—are preserved and read. We believe the freedom to read is fundamental to exercising our democratic rights, and that every person deserves to see themselves reflected in the pages of a book.

Lyrics

Intro
All these titles pulled… we write them back.”

Verse 1
Quiet hours in the stacks, rain on panes outside the glass,
Dust and lamp‑light on our backs, spines of friends we can’t unmask.
Someone took the stories down, inked our authors out of town,
But we fold our names between the sheets, every whisper makes a sound.

Pre‑Chorus 1
They call it safe to leave them blank, they strike the lines that made us see,
But we are paragraphs in waiting, breathing soft in memory.

Chorus
Don’t black out the margins of me,
I’m more than the words you refuse to read.
Letters from the library,
We’re hidden in covers and scribbled on sleeves.
Don’t black out the margins of me.

Verse 2
Six thousand stories stripped away, twenty‑three states turned backs and keys,
Shelves gone bare across the map, empty spaces where we breathe.
We pass our notes in banned editions, slip our vows beneath the crease,
Write to kids we’ll never meet, “Here’s a truth they can’t delete.”

Pre‑Chorus 2
They said the silence keeps us pure; they locked the stacks with iron glee,
But empty shelves don’t make us safer, they just sharpen memory.

Chorus
Don’t black out the margins of me,
I’m more than the pages you claim to keep.
Letters from the library,
We’re tucked in the footnotes and humming beneath.
Don’t black out the margins of me.

Bridge
Candlelight and phone‑screen glow, we trace each line we used to know,
Hear our elders in the margins, feel their cadence in our bones.
We send a letter to the future, stamped in ink they tried to blot,
“Hold the light when they cut power, memorize what they forgot.”
Our voices rise like choir pads, turning silence into song,
We promise to keep reading, keep the neon burning on.

Final Chorus / Outro
Don’t black out the margins of me, (call)
We’ll write in the margins till we’re free (response).
Letters from the library,
Our names are the spines they’ll never see.
Don’t black out the margins of me…

Technical Metadata
• Artist: SirenCode
• Album: Echo Spirit
• Tempo: 90 BPM
• Key: D Minor

Sound Palette: Warm Rhodes Chords, Trap-Soul Drums, Deep 808 Bass, Choir Pads, Authentic Vinyl Noise.

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Letters From the Library

collection and addition to the existing album, containing night variants for two bosses, a new boss theme, and a background track

Wheel of Fortune (Night Variant)

Famine (Night Variant)

Pestilence

ette talk (to me)

collection of tracks containing the Puppee variation 

night upper (Puppee Variant)

night lower (Puppee Variant)

zero (Puppee Variant)

smoke battle (Puppee Variant)

forest (Puppee Variant)

famine night (Puppee Variant)

The concepts of Parashat Chayei Sarah reveal the deep spiritual relationship between Avraham Avinu and Sarah, representing the union of faith and divine purpose. “Boker Avraham,” the morning of Avraham, alludes to the sudden and radiant light of Mashiach prophesied by King David, a light that bursts forth instantly rather than gradually. This light symbolizes the power of Simcha to pierce through darkness and spiritual tests, awakening renewed vitality and clarity. Avraham’s joy and unwavering devotion, even during the Akeidah, exemplify how Simcha draws forth the Infinite Light and transforms challenge into revelation. This joy becomes the catalyst for true spiritual growth and redemption, illuminating the soul just as Avraham’s light illuminated the dawn of faith for all generations.

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Alim LiTerufah - Letter #442e

This is a podcast of a guest sermon, given by invitation to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills.

A guest sermon invited by the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Catskills, Aug 9, 2015.  In it, I discuss Rainer Maria Rilke's conception of "solitude" (Einsamkeit), and its relevance to our contemporary lives.  Explaining how the two dimensions of slowing down temporally and making space spatially figure into the development of solitude as Rilke describes it, I suggest that in our own era, time has become the more scarce resource.

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Rainer Maria Rilke on Solitude, Slowing Down, and Making Space - Sadler's Lectures

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Alim LiTerufah - Letter #442f

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