Here we are in the plague years of 1592-3, seeing what the "upstart crow" was up to while the theaters were closed.

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What's the plural of hieros gamos? We celebrate the totally real and binding nuptials of hero and heroine, then living doll and aspiring gourmand, who are immediately blessed with a new child, the last of the Summoners who communes with the Moogles, before traversing the Iifa Tree, breaking the seal and dissipating the Mist.

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Part IV and the Epilogue, Smerdyakov and Iago, Dostoevsky and Shakespeare.

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Escaping death in Fossil Roo to reach the Outer Continent, where we compare Conde Petie and the Black Mage Village; the unobstructed light of the sky and the blue light of memory; the search for origins and the acceptance of mortality. And we don't forget about Quina!

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Jace invited me to think through some of the ways in which memory and art are almost identicalThanks, Jace, and thank you for listening!

You can find links to our past conversations on Xenogears, etc. here: https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2019/05/bookwarm-games-xenogears.html

Contrasting the Queen and the Princess, their Summons, and the fall of Cleyra and Lindblum.

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Concealed in the pickle pack, Garnet crosses back to Alexandrian soil, has her pocket picked in Treno, and spots a creepy figure in the Auction House. Steiner trades in constellation coins for a Blood Sword. Dr Tot interrupts a half-hearted heist for the Supersoft with flashbacks about a young princess reading I Want to Be Your Canary while researching the Summoner Tribe. We ride a bug-borne trolley straight into a trap; we climb up to a sandy treehouse and consult the Rat King.

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On the death of the father and pursuit of delirium.

Discussing the Grand Inquisitor and other light topics.

Through Qu Marsh, Chocobo Forest, Gizamaluke Grotto, and on to Burmecia. Gameplay considerations galore.

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https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/

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