Ep 204: Darkness Audible
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SLEERICKETS is a podcast about poetry and other intractable problems.
NB: Did I forget about Hitler? you ask. Did I forget about Stalin? On the one hand, yes, I temporarily did. On the other, there’s something about the notion that Gilles de Rais did all this personally in his own home for the explicit purpose of impressing the Devil with his evilness that really sickens the soul. But yes, good point, there’s always Hitler, who was, in his own way, the worst person who ever lived.
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– Conspiracy by ContraPoints
– This Pleasing Anxious Being by Richard Wilbur
– Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
– The Versecraft interview w/ James Matthew Wilson
– The Death of Cicero by James Matthew Wilson (compare the first line to the first line of Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats)
– The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
– How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
– How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
– Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Age Pervert
– ContraPoints’ comment on Gaza
– Ready or Not (2019) & The Babysitter (2017) (same concept, same cosmology, same leading lady, both pretty entertaining)
– The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
– Evil
– La-bas by J.-K. Huysmans
– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure
– Canceling by ContraPoints
– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
– Mitchell & Webb’s Lucentio sketch
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Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed
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Cameron: Minor Tiresias
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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
