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At first, I thought I might go conceptual with this playlist — songs about blackouts, or losses in time and memory, or death, or erasure. (This got me thinking about the band Erasure, a band I hadn't thought about in quite some time, and I lost an hour or so dancing my way down that wormhole.) I decided against something too conceptual and considered taking a more atmospheric route: a playlist that could serve as a companion as one read the novel — that is, songs without lyrics — though ultimately...