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What is the "point of no return" for Faustus? Is there a line in the play that indicates it?
Listen to the episode: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...Michael and Ethan, finally alone, finish the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
In this episode:
Finally alone except for a dog and cat
Persuasion Chapter 53
Persuasion is either Much Ado About Nothing or Parks and Rec or both
Our highest aim on this podcast is “possible legitimacy”
Jane Austen can’t have anybody naked, even in the 1990s
People have been really gross and done really gross stuff for a long time
Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy using the butterfly effect?
Novel + satire + socialist(?) class critique = Jane Austen is a genius
Mrs Smith and Zombies
Community comes out through conversation
How much of community is persuasion?
We still need each other whether we like it or not
No community has ever flourished without the possibility of people you don’t like
Michael brag brag brags
Next time Michael and Ethan will discuss Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.
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BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET!
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Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett)
MUSIC & SFX:
"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission.
"The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
"Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.
https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...Michael and Ethan, with special wife guests Karen and Sarah, discuss their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
In this episode:
Again making use of our intern-generated, wonderful, thoughtful, very serious discussion guide
Karen definitely makes multiple references to Mrs Jennings, a character from Sense and Sensibility and NOT this novel
A block of wood would be a better father than Anne’s actual father
Meanwhile, Ethan says “verb” when he clearly means “adjective” so I guess everyone’s a sinner
The wives get in some pretty good burns on Sir Walter, including:
Sir Walter is so obsessed with himself that he takes the opening of the novel away from Anne
Sir Walter is a toddler
From the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
NOTICE.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR
PER G. G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.
Is Anne a real character with agency or just sort of a wavy balloon guy for the wind to blow around?
Karen is Anne, Anne is Emma, Sarah is the walrus, coo coo ca choo
Coming soon:
Persuasion and the Alien Invasion
Persuasion and Psirens
Next time Michael and Ethan will continue the discussion of their Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen! Join the discussion! Go to the Contact page and put "Scotch Talk" in the Subject line. We'd love to hear from you! And submit your homework at the Michael & Ethan in a Room with Scotch page.
Join us on GoodReads!
Donate to our Patreon!
BUY A NIHILIST BLANKET!
Your Hosts: Michael G. Lilienthal (@mglilienthal) and
Ethan Bartlett (@bjartlett)
MUSIC & SFX:
"Kessy Swings Endless - (ID 349)" by Lobo Loco. Used by permission.
"The Grim Reaper - II Presto" by Aitua. Used under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
"Thinking It Over" by Lee Rosevere. Used under an Attribution License.
SO silly!
Listen to episode 2 of our discussion here! https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...Michael and Ethan, with special guests Lydia and Christina (aka Stiners), discuss their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
In this episode:
Our intern wrote us this very thorough, very thoughtful, and overall excellent discussion guide
A sort of Damocles
True gnosis will lead you to a binary choice
Christina’s Walter Elliot thoughts
Captain Wentworth: a hot blank canvas
Lydia would maybe have to bully Wentworth
There aren’t any examples of persuasion in this book other than like 75 examples
Jane Austen: Unionize! (because it’s about marriage but also class solidarity)
We will be producing “Persuasion but it’s the Blair Witch Project” soon
Coming soon: Lydia’s Ramblings (maybe)
Listen to the first episode here! https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...Michael and Ethan, with special guests Erin and Risha of Vampires and Mermaids, inaugurate their discussion of their (somewhat slimmer than usual) Mondo Book for the year: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.
In this episode:
What an excellent rule (sorry, Risha)
An unpopular opinion that captures several important things
Austen as a writer who maybe should be listened to at least as much as read?
Reading novels was basically the 19th-century version of Gameboy
JANE DID A CLIFFHANGER
Is Persuasion unfilmable?
VERY EXCITING DICTION DISCUSSION
Jane Austen: all sarcasm all the time?
The Keira Knightley one, the one with the Dashwood Sisters, the one with the name we can’t say…
One very simple blockage: the miscommunication trope
The blockage is always the title of the book
Listen to the episode here: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...What are your answers for Ethan's Reading Group Guide?
Listen to part 2 of the podcast discussion: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...Share your thoughts!
Episodes covering Toni Morrison's Beloved have been recorded and are soon to air. Share your thoughts before they come out! How do ghosts work? What is the role of family? How can community harm and how can it heal?
Share your thoughts about Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy before Michael & Ethan press record! If your thoughts are better than theirs, they may reply to your ideas on the air!
Both episodes of 'Salem's Lot, with special guests Erin & Risha of the podcast Vampires & Mermaids, have been released. What are your thoughts of this book and the discussion? Is it existential Dracula? How well does the horror element work?Part 1: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...
Part 2: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...
Share your thoughts about The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy before Michael & Ethan press record! If they find you worthy, they may reply to your ideas on the air!
Both podcast episodes are out on this title! Part 1: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...
Part 2: https://tapestryradio.org/scotchcast/...
What do you think? Are ghosts real (in the book)? What do they say about identity and trauma? What did Michael & Ethan miss in their discussion?
