Tranquillusionist: Nmiigea
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, for the purposes of quelling anxiety and stress and sleeplessness, read the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon, with the words arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
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The original music is by Martin Austwick, based on the chords of ‘Imagine’ in alphabetical order. Hear Martin’s songs at palebirdmusic.com or on Spotify, and he’s @martinaustwick on Twitter and Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the tranquil illusionist in which I Helen Zoltzman for the purposes of |
| 0:07.0 | quilling anxiety and stress and sleeplessness read the lyrics to imagine by John |
| 0:14.4 | Lennon with the words arranged in reverse alphabetical order |
| 0:30.0 | who? World, world, world wonder will, will us, us, us, us try to today, to, to, to |
| 0:45.1 | There's there's the B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, some, some sky, sharing, say, say, religion, |
| 0:59.3 | possessions, people, people, people, peace, or, or, only, only, only one, one, one, one, |
| 1:14.3 | one of nothing, not, not, no, no, no, no, no, no, need, may, may, man, living, living, |
| 1:30.0 | life, kill, join, join, it's, it isn't in imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, |
| 1:45.5 | I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, if, if I, I, I, I, hunger, hope, hope, hell, heaven, heart, greed, |
| 2:05.5 | for, for, for easy, dreamer, dreamer, do die, day, day, countries can, but, but, brotherhood |
| 2:19.5 | below, B, B, as, as, and, and, and, all, all, all, above, A, A, A, |
| 2:36.5 | that was the lyrics to imagine by John Lennon, arranged in reverse alphabetical order, |
| 2:45.5 | produced by me, Helen Zoltzman, the music is by Martin Orstwick of palebirdmusic.com, |
| 2:52.5 | it's the chords of imagine, arranged in alphabetical order. |
| 2:58.5 | If you're looking for more podcasts to distract you from current events, trolleyle pod |
| 3:03.0 | captures from my other shows, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars investigations. |
| 3:08.0 | You can find me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at IllusionistShow and the special Tranquillusionist |
| 3:16.0 | and the usual Illusionist episodes are all available at theillusionist.org. |
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