NB: My comments on Japanese culture and ritual suicide refer to historical convention, not to present day norms.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Ep 247 of Poetry Says: An absolutely ordinary poem

– Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

– The Nix by Nathan Hill

– Elephant by Gus Van Sant

– The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft

– The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft

– The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft

– Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

– Sonnet 116

– Ted Budd

– The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

– Maryann Corbett

– When I have fears that I may cease to be by John Keats

– The Mercy Rule Pt. 1 & Pt. 2

– Louis C.K. on white-people problems

– Trois Mondes, Une Planete by Alfred Sauvy

– Are Marathons Safe? by Tara Parker-Pope

– Ecology of Souls by Terence McKenna

– The RAFI Communique article including the term first-world problem

– Google Books Ngram Viewer

– Brit Marling

– The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan

– The Inner Light (Star Trek)

– The Odyssey

– The Aeneid

– Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

Frequent topics:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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Poetry Says by Alice Allan

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Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed