Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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The Limbus Company bus keeps bussing forward and another year has passed, so let's get back to our significantly delayed tour of books that inspired the writing in the game.

Previous parts of the series:
youtube.com/watch?v=LxXIDHMzt4g
youtube.com/watch?v=pmbLa_XOgSI

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Timestamps:
00:00 - 01:50 - Intro
01:50 - 03:22 - Intervallo - Miracle in District 20
03:22 - 09:11 - Intervallo - Yield My Flesh To Claim Their Bones
09:11 - 43:34 - Canto VI - The Heartbreaking
43:34 - 47:42 - Intervallo - Timekilling Time
47:42 - 49:30 - Intervallo - Murder On The WARP Express
49:30 - 1:16:48 - Canto VII - The Dream Ending
1:16:48 - 1:17:16 - Outro

Bibliography of books that get more than just a passing mention:
(Overarching)
- "Divine Comedy - Inferno" by Dante Alighieri (1321), English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
- "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1943), English translation by Katherine Woods (1943)

(Intervallo III-2)
- "Selected Poems of Kim Sakkat", English translation by Kevin O'Rourke and Han Kyongshim (2014)
- Namu wiki article on the Geomgye organization
https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B2%80%EA%B3%84
- Nami wiki article on Kim Byung-Yeon
https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B9%80%EB%B3%91%EC%97%B0?from=%EA%B9%80%EC%82%BF%EA%B0%93

(Canto VI)
- "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë (1847)
- "The Villain In Wuthering Heights" by James Hafley, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Dec., 1958), pp. 199-215

(Canto VII)
- "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantez Saavedra (vol. 1 1605; vol.2 1615), English translation by John Ormsby (1885)
- "Man of La Mancha" by Dale Wasserman (1965), movie adaptation directed by Arthur Hiller (1972)
- Short summary of the myth of Princess Bari published by the Korean Center For International Affairs, author uncredited:
https://www.aks.ac.kr/cefia/webzine/2207/focus_eng.html

Music from Limbus Company used:
- Aboard Mephistopheles
- We Wish You
- Intervallo III-2 Boss
- Intervallo III-2 Battle
- Rise of Evil
- Leviathan
- Canto VI Battle Theme C1
- Canto VI Battle Theme A1
- Through Patches of Violet (Instrumental)
- Endless Sorrow
- Erlkönig
- Falling Down
- Time Killing Time
- WARP Station
- Oblivion
- Canto VII Battle Theme D
- Opening Show
- Canto VII Boss 4
- Canto VII Battle F1
- Una Estrella Alcanzar
- La Mancha Carnival (Instrumental)
- Hero (Instrumental)

Outro music:
Pathologic 3 Main Menu Theme

Additional video footage borrowed from the following channels:
- What?
youtube.com/@LaikasRequiem
- PhilzillaTheAzn
youtube.com/@philzillatheazn6890
- Foreman Plays Stuff
youtube.com/@ForemanPlaysStuff
- Smis
youtube.com/@Smis1337
- Syl
youtube.com/@EpicTkoWko
- TimeDes
youtube.com/@timedes6732
- Unholy Bun
youtube.com/@unholybun239
- RPG Games Enjoyer
youtube.com/@rpgveteran1252
- Lord of Apple
youtube.com/@lordofapple3411
- Mule lordz
youtube.com/@mulelordz8088
- Sirenedy
youtube.com/@sirenedy9920
- TimeDes
youtube.com/@timedes6732
- Stachu1232
youtube.com/@stachu_1232
- Cursed Pie
youtube.com/@cursedpie8378
- Bek
youtube.com/@bekHB
- Amarylis
youtube.com/@HanakoAmaryllis
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