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John Cale - Hallelujah
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John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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John Cale - Paris 1919
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John Cale - The Endless Plain of Fortune
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John Cale - You Know More Than I Know
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John Cale - Archimedes
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John Cale - Leaving It Up To You
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John Cale - Afraid
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John Cale - Angel of Death
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John Cale - Barracuda
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John Cale - Big White Cloud
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John Cale - Cafe Shabu
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John Cale - Charlemagne
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John Cale - Child's Christmas in Wales
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John Cale - Chinese Takaway (Hong Kong 1997)
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John Cale - Damn Life
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John Cale - Darling I Need You
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John Cale - Forever Changed
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John Cale - Gun
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John Cale - Hanky Panky Nohow
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John Cale - I Believe
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John Cale - I Keep a Close Watch
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John Cale - I’ll Be Your Mirror
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John Cale - Momamma Scuba
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John Cale - Please
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John Cale - Rise, Sam And Rimsky Korsakov
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John Cale - The Soul of Carmen Miranda
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John Cale - There She Goes Again
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John Cale - A Dream
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John Cale - All Tomorrow’s Parties
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John Cale - Amsterdam
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John Cale - Andalucia
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John Cale - Cable Hogue
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John Cale - Caribbean Sunset
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John Cale - Chinese Envoy
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John Cale - Cleo
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John Cale - Dirty Ass Rock’n’roll
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John Cale - Dying On The Vine
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John Cale - Fade Away Tomorrow
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John Cale - Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
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John Cale - Femme Fatale
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John Cale - Ghost Story
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John Cale - Gideon’s Bible
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John Cale - Half Past France
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John Cale - Hello It’s Me
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John Cale - Here She Comes Now
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John Cale - Heroin
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John Cale - I Wanna Talk 2 U
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John Cale - I'm Not The Loving Kind
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John Cale - Images
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John Cale - Macbeth
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John Cale - Magic Lies
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John Cale - Mr. Wilson
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John Cale - My Maria
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John Cale - Nobody But You
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John Cale - On a Wedding Anniversary
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John Cale - Overture
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John Cale - Pastoral Angst
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John Cale - Run Run Run
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John Cale - Runaway Child
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John Cale - Russian Roulette
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John Cale - Sanities
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John Cale - Satellite Walk
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John Cale - Secrets
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John Cale - Ship Of Fools
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John Cale - Small Town
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John Cale - So Long, Marianne
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John Cale - Strange Times In Casablanca
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John Cale - Streets Come Alive
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John Cale - Take Your Place
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John Cale - Taking It All Away
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John Cale - The Academy in Peril
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John Cale - The Black Angel's Death Song
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John Cale - The High & Mighty Road
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John Cale - The Jeweller
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John Cale - The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy
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John Cale - There Was a Saviour
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John Cale - Venus In Furs
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John Cale - Who Is That Saving Me
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John Cale - Who's In Charge?
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John Cale - Work
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John Cale - Adelaide
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John Cale - Antarctica Starts Here
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John Cale - Black Rose
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John Cale - Bring It On Up
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John Cale - Broken Hearts
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John Cale - Buffalo Ballet
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John Cale - Caravan
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John Cale - Changes Made
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John Cale - Coyote
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John Cale - Dead Or Alive
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John Cale - Emily
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John Cale - European Son
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John Cale - Everytime The Dogs Bark
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John Cale - Faces & Names
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John Cale - Fairweather Friend
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John Cale - Fighter Pilot
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John Cale - Graham Greene
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John Cale - Guts
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John Cale - Heartbreak Hotel
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John Cale - Hedda Gabler
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John Cale - Hello There
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John Cale - I Heard Her Call My Name
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John Cale - I Wanna Be Your Dog
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John Cale - I’m Waiting for The Man
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John Cale - If You Were Still Around
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John Cale - In The Library of Force
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John Cale - It Wasn't Me
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John Cale - King Harry
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John Cale - Lady Godiva's Operation
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John Cale - Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
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John Cale - Maps Of The World
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John Cale - Memphis
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John Cale - Modern World
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John Cale - Ocean Life
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John Cale - Old China
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John Cale - Open House
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John Cale - Over Her Head
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John Cale - Pablo Picasso
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John Cale - Paradise Nevada
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John Cale - Perfect
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John Cale - Queen Victoria
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John Cale - Riverbank
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John Cale - Sabotage
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John Cale - Santies
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John Cale - Scorch
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John Cale - Short of Time
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John Cale - Sister Ray
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John Cale - Slip Away (A Warning)
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John Cale - Song Of The Valley
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John Cale - Starlight
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John Cale - Streets Of Laredo
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John Cale - Style It Takes
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John Cale - Sunday Morning
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John Cale - Taking Your Life In Your Hands
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John Cale - The Gift
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John Cale - The Sleeper
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John Cale - The Soul Of Patrick Lee
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John Cale - Thoughtless Kind
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John Cale - Trouble With Classicists
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John Cale - Vigilante Lover
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John Cale - White Light / White Heat
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John Cale - Wilson Joliet
The Jeweller
John Cale
Engrossed in his corner, he passed onto the other inhabitants of the room a scrawled insularity of time and space
For both passed him by with the speed of light, not unlike the flow of substance, however varied, into that lysergic entity known as the black hole
He was hardly ugly for his time, and conversation was certainly not lost on him
Drastic measures were called for, and as in antiquity the lonely man was blessed with wisdom to the point of desperation
But there in his corner, developing around him like a sun, was a climate of such rare beauty that sight and sound could no longer be considered sufficient food for the senses
And he had begun to notice, as his hearing failed, that mind and matter were in no way connected to one other, as if in fact the one could not propose and prove its erotic existence in terms of the other
"What does this word mean?" he enquired of the solemn waiter hopefully
"Nothing for desert sir", came the reply, "perhaps a cocktail, demitasse or a herbal essence, it helps the breathing you know sometimes". "The bill, if you don't mind", quickly he shot back
And as the patter of the feet faded in the room, for he barely heard them now, his eye slowly began to close, and by the time he emerged on the sunny street he was forced to rely entirely on the other eye for help, but happily it continued its many functions, blinking gently for lubrication, and registering images
It was rush hour, in Hawaii only 10am
So, turning into his street, he stopped at the drug store and bought an eye patch that soon covered the reluctant eye
Climbing the stairs he pondered what to do next, he would call a doctor and have tests made, eat nourishing food and if necessary consent to surgery, the last resort of the gambling man
And at 1am he awoke from a dream and after fumbling his way in the obolescent light of his room he peered into the rusty veins of his mirror and lifted away the patch
What he saw astonished him. Where once was tremulous tissue and membrane was now a follicle and perfectly formed vagina with vulva, overgrown and mysterious, unrevealing and still to the untrained eye
But in the deep dark recesses of that sticky occlusion lay the unclosing watchful eye of disgust in its closing moments, lunging forward and hungry for the cold light of days