Ep 12: Two or Three Taboos
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Joe Pesci’s death scene in Goodfellas
– Freud’s book Totem and Taboo
– Other Intractable Problems
– Cosmopolitan Brooklyn Sex Novelist Brian Platzer
– Kant’s book Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
– Tim Parks’ essay “Why Readers Disagree”
– Jonathan Franzen’s book The Corrections
– The last sentence of The Origin of Species
– The Death-Makes-Life-Worth-Living Delusion
– The question psychiatry residents hate most
– Sherlock Holmes on Copernicus
– Poe on composition
– Flames, old and new
– Yeats’ poem “After Long Silence”
– Wyatt’s poem “Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind”
– Derek Walcott’s poem “Sixty Years After”
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