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The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

Chris Piuma

The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

An Arts and Literature podcast featuring Chris Piuma
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The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

Chris Piuma

The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

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The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

Chris Piuma

The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books

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Even though the book starts out saying “Reason is one thing and Fancy is another; Imagination is one thing and Philosophy is another,” she’s then showing throughout the book how these are very similar kinds of actions. Epicurus was making a wor
Allas, of me, unto the worldes ende,Shal neither been ywriten nor ysongeNo good word, for thise bokes wol me shende.O, rolled shal I been on many a tonge;Thurghout the world my belle shal be ronge;And wommen most wol hate me of alle.Allas, that
There’s a feeling, I think, in English poetry that you have to be original. That feeling isn’t really there in Persian poetry until the very modern period. Then it is. But before then, there’s a kind of sense that there’s this vast treasury of
Her voice was sweet and liquid, like a streamThat lulls all other streams to sleep and dream;Her eyes like doe’s eyes, whose dark gaze would makeA lion lie down dazed, and half awake.She seemed an alphabet of loveliness,Curved letters were the
Language is so personal and internal. It exists in your head. You can close your eyes and plug your ears and not engage with the outside world at all, and yet you still have language going on. So I think one of the things that attracts people t
The word “amicus” — meaning “friend” — comes from a derivation, as if it were “animi custos”, or “guardian of the soul”. And this is well put! The term for someone tormented by carnal desire is “amator turpitudinis”, a lover of wickedness. But
“Now I know,” she said, “that other, more serious cause of your sickness: you have forgotten what you are. So I really understand why you are ill and how to cure you. For because you are wandering, forgetful of your true self, you grieve that y
I come to my garden, my sister, my bride;I gather my myrrh with my spice,I eat my honeycomb with my honey,I drink my wine with my milk.Eat, friends, drink,And be drunk with love.The Song of Songs is a work of lyric poetry which is notably and u
are you mockers of meyou grabbing old menare you laughers at methough I’m not yet goneO springs of the rivers of ThebesO reaches of the plains of Thebesbear me witnessno one sheds a tear for meas I go to my strange new graveno one knows what ki
‘My friend, whom I loved so dear, who with me went through every danger,my friend Enkidu, whom I loved so dear, who with me went through every danger:‘the doom of mortals overtook him. Six days I wept for him and seven nights.I did
In classical narrative poetry, there’s these formulaic repetitions that come up, right? And then we have these very weird formulaic repetitions that come up in Blind Owl. And I think the function is completely the opposite in the classical work
I had thought about death and the decomposition of all the particles in my body many times—to the extent that it didn’t frighten me—in fact, my true wish was to be completely annihilated. The only thing that frightened me was that the atoms in
I know the rest of the night will be as devoted to work as love as I’m now resting in this expensive sentence and in the end I’ll spend it fast writing to you anyway, addressing you and a solution or night beginning like a letter, just a few wo
Summer surprised us, coming over the StarnbergerseeWith a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.An
Encodings were precious. The little girls heard the stories at their mother’s knees, when their mothers had time to tell them…. How women, in the long ago time when women could vote and be doctors and fly spaceships—a fantasy world for these gi
The Two Towers’ landscape passages… a lot of the book is from Sam’s POV, and he’s the gardener, and Ithilien is packed with flower names in a way that not even the Shire is when he’s not the viewpoint character. So there’s so much lore that he
The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
“I want to know everything, everything,” screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. “Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything.” [Ole Golly said,] “It won’t do you a bi
In the South everyone knew you, but coming North was a jump into the unknown. How many days could you walk the streets of the big city without encountering anyone who knew you, and how many nights? You could actually make yourself anew. The not
—Mr Brandes accepts it, Stephen said, as the first play of the closing period.—Does he? What does Mr Sidney Lee, or Mr Simon Lazarus as some aver his name is, say of it?—Marina, Stephen said, a child of storm, Miranda, a wonder, Perdita, that w
Clarissa had a theory in those days—they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met e
I’ve always struggled, since I went to art school, with the question of: What is the career of making paintings in the twenty-first century? Of sitting alone in a room and painting in a way people did 500 years ago, in the world of technology a
At this point I admit my defeat; no poet, comic or tragic, ever was more outdone by his theme than I am nowfor, as sunlight does to the weakest eyes, so did the mere thought of her lovely smile strike every recognition from my mind.From the fir
W.G. Sebald's curious book The Rings of Saturn.
Our cluster on Time begins with Augustine's Confessions.
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