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"Spake" implies that, both in its original oral announcement, and now even when in writing, it has been always, and is, the living voice of God speaking to us through His inspired servants.
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I love to string the tracks along with Thus Spake ... and Fanfare ... and let them play out as superb companions.
Rampant Speculation: Spot the Temp Track Ben Abraham 2009
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While I always admired the dark instrumental passage of the original, which felt a lot like Joy Division and the modern rock progeny they inspired, Foxy Shazam's breakdown-slash-build-up isn't as Goth -- instead, it just builds like a bull-ring showdown, slyly throwing in Wagner's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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While I always admired the dark instrumental passage of the original, which felt a lot like Joy Division and the modern rock progeny they inspired, Foxy Shazam's breakdown-slash-build-up isn't as Goth -- instead, it just builds like a bull-ring showdown, slyly throwing in Wagner's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" aka the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Michael Vazquez: Huffington Post Exclusive Music World Premiere: On The Twentieth Anniversary Of Nevermind, SPIN Curates A Tribute Album (Audio) Michael Vazquez 2011
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In the sunshine on Sunday, jazz stereotypes of shadowy monochrome characters blowing saxes in cellars were dispelled by kids turning cartwheels on the grass, while Hendrix-like guitar chords in the distance ripped through ragged horn sections, tampering cheerfully with Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, and the silver-haired, the rainbow-haired and the no-haired picked their way through marquees, sunbathers and bands.
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Below are extended excerpts, but please read the entire piece by Amanda Spake:
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Below are extended excerpts, but please read the entire piece by Amanda Spake:
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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It was generated from a Google Calendar compiled by MissPrism from the "Let's All Have a Party!" thread at Thus Spake Zuska.
Remember to Celebrate Women Scientists Peggy 2008
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As Professor Charles Marsh has observed, "It is unlikely that anyone has ever read Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra or Jacques Derrida's Disseminations and opened a soup kitchen."
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I read Thus Spake and The Gay Science for my existentialism class; I loved them, adored them, the words resonated in my soul.
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