Ep 131: Big Picture-ism

 
 

NB: My comments on Japanese culture and ritual suicide refer to historical convention, not to present day norms.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Ep 247 of Poetry Says: An absolutely ordinary poem

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Elephant by Gus Van Sant

The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

Sonnet 116

Ted Budd

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Maryann Corbett

When I have fears that I may cease to be by John Keats

– The Mercy Rule Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

Louis C.K. on white-people problems

Trois Mondes, Une Planete by Alfred Sauvy

Are Marathons Safe? by Tara Parker-Pope

Ecology of Souls by Terence McKenna

The RAFI Communique article including the term first-world problem

Google Books Ngram Viewer

Brit Marling

The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan

The Inner Light (Star Trek)

The Odyssey

The Aeneid

Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

Frequent topics:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alice: Poetry Says

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Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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