Literary Ramblings

On Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World


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In this episode, Joe, Scott, Wes, and Kevin discuss Benjamín Labatut's 2020 work, When We Cease to Understand the World. The work is ranked 83rd on the NYT's list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. We focus on Labatut's strange blending of fiction and nonfiction and the way this parallels particle superposition in Quantum Mechanics, what happens to scientists when they look into the eyes of God, William Burroughs, and much more...

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Literary RamblingsBy Scott Talmage, Joe Hecker, Kevin McCarthy, and Wes Allen

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