Ep 10: Debunking Kafka, ft. Austin Allen
NB: We touched on so many topics in this one that I’m here going to limit myself to the readily linkable stuff. Come to think of it, that may be a good policy going forward…
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Austin Allen’s book Pleasures of the Game
– C. P. Snow’s essay “The Two Cultures”
– Roger Kimball’s essay on “The Two Cultures”
– Amit Majmudar’s essay “Kepler’s Snowflake”
– Amit Majmudar’s essay “The Brains of Animals”
– William Blake’s poem “Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau”
– Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Sonnet: To Science”
– Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen”
– Dan Chiasson’s incoherent tweet about UFOs
– Richard Dawkins’ bizarre tweet about The Metamorphosis
– The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
– The Travels of Blad J. Garamond
– Annie Dillard’s book The Writing Life
– Amit Majmudar’s poem “Patient Histories”
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