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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