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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Brian Platzer!

– Iain Reid’s novel I’m Thinking of Ending Things

– Charlie Kaufman’s movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things

– The narrative frame of The White Lotus

– The definition of “literary thriller”

– Luis Buñuel’s movie That Obscure Object of Desire

– Kevin Brockmeier’s book The Brief History of the Dead

– David Eagleman’s book Sum

– The series finale of Lost

– Oklahoma!

– Wordsworth’s poem “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections in Early Childhood”

– Eva H.D.’s poem “Bonedog”

– The end of The Usual Suspects

– The Nobel Prize acceptance speech in A Beautiful Mind

– Henry Darger

– Alexander Sokurov’s movie Russian Ark

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