I wrote the attached document, in hope that this historical backdrop related in Cyriaca's story would help me understand the up-coming Play, chapter 8 of The Claw, the Tale of the Student and His Son, and the Spring Wind story, I broke down Cyriaca’s story in Sword of the Licto...
2021-05-10 16:53:27 +0000 UTC
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This page is updated as new episodes are released and it is public facing. Currently we're working our way through Borges's oeuvre. If you have a suggestion for stories we should cover here, this is the place to do it. To listen to these episodes you'll need to become a patron at the ...
2021-05-01 13:27:32 +0000 UTC
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Craig and James finish their conversation about an encyclopedia from a fictional country created by a non-existent culture that is only known from a forged, reprinted encyclopedia .
Full text of the story 2021-05-01 04:06:50 +0000 UTC
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ReReaders! We've got a question. Occasionally we get people who aren't interested in the comments and want to jump right to the chapter. And lately, the comments section has been almost as long as the chapter. So we were wondering if it would make sense to split the episodes into comment episodes...
2021-04-26 03:56:05 +0000 UTC
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Craig and James begin their conversation about this short story by Jorge Luis Borges about an impossible encyclopedia entry of a fictional realm in a non-existent country.
Full text of the story 2021-04-21 03:05:28 +0000 UTC
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TLDR; FAQ
- Doesn't this theory make Severian's story unnecessarily more complicated?
It raises questions of the same sort as when you find out that Thecla and the Old Autarch are sort of involved in the writing of The Book of the New Sun. But, for ...
2021-04-12 00:23:15 +0000 UTC
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I’ve noticed this question gets asked a lot on Reddit. So I’ll lay it out here.
1. If you read The Book of the New Sun and didn’t like it or you’d give it mixed reviews, try The Fifth Head of Cerberus. It breaks the envelope of “the novel” in a different ...
2021-04-10 03:50:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi, everyone! Thank you all again for your support! We're blown away by the response to this so far, and we don't deserve it. I mean, really, we don't deserve it because our grand plans for getting the bonus content up quickly got sidetracked.
I'm finishing up the first half of our first bo...
2021-03-30 14:05:38 +0000 UTC
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Why did I use "thyself?" I think I saw that in a videogame somewhere. It has nothing to do with Wolfe.
You'll also notice that there's nothing else Wolfe-related yet. But we're feverishly working on our first patrons-only episode.
We can't say enough how much we appreciate your suppor...
2021-03-08 03:31:35 +0000 UTC
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