A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut

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Have a Nice Life’s eight minute long opener to what is arguably their Magnum Opus–"Deathconsciousness". “A Quick One” can be either used in an alcoholic or sexual context, whereas “the Eternal Worm” is obviously a reference to death–likely caused by the fact that worms are commonly perceived as decomposers (when in fact they are dentrivores) in many ecosystems. The association between worms and death is also popularly referenced to in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Conqueror Worm-

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