Ep 203: Gateway Drugs, ft. Mark Leidner, Pt. 1
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize lecure
– Leopards in the Temple" by Franz Kafka (couldn’t find any good links, so here’s the text Mark copy-pasted to me: “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“)
– Returning the Sword to the Stone by Mark Leidner
– Mark’s Substack: Opaque Hourglass
– Recitatif by Tony Morrison
– Hamlet
– Plato
– Amleth
– The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
– Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize lecture
– Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird
– A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich
– Dogs of War by Mark Leidner
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