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Words have similar power in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Lullaby.¦ An African culling song meant to euthanize the very young and the enfeebled during times of famine when the tribe couldn't support everyone is reproduced in a book of children's poems.¦ And now parents, innocently reading the ancient lullaby to their...
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Cmore Racing is the Web site of More Family of Racers along with other topics including The Number 27. ... An African culling song is the lethal weapon, murdering whomever it is read to or even thought toward. Streator read this same lullaby to his wife and son years before and realizes he is responsible for killing his family.
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The subject matter was inspired after I read Lullaby, mostly with regard to the idea of real african culling songs.I did some musical research and ended up writing this piece for a solo soprano singer and electronics.
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But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl's victims.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK'S NEW NOVEL, LULLABY, IS THE STORY OF A "culling song"--a rhyme that has the power to kill all who...won't want to learn--and use- ... An African culling song is the lethal weapon, murdering whomever...for killing his family. Now that the culling song is memorized, Streator becomes a supernatural...
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Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find ... It's an old African poem about animals going to sleep; it's a culling song. These words not only hurt, they kill! Lethal verbiage.
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No word on whether Radiohead's next move in this artistic connection will be to write a concept album in which they reinterpret the same brief African chant "culling song" over-and-over again in a move which accidentally kills anyone who listens.
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During the course of his investigation, he discovers that each death scene contains a copy of the anthology Poems and Rhymes Around the World opened to an African “culling song,” a powerful spell which kills those in whose direction it is spoken or even thought. ... With the culling song lodged in his brain,
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The premise of Lullaby lies in an African culling song, which has somehow made its way into a book of children's nursery rhymes. ... Copies of this book have circulated around America, and when unsuspecting parents read the culling song to their infants and young children, a terrible thing happens: by the next morning,
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