Storyological

Storyological 1.02 - DEFEATED BY GREATER THINGS

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In which we discuss:

1. "Hat Trick" by Etgar Keret from his collection, The Girl on the Fridge.

 

2. "The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs from the Feb. 1st, 2016 New Yorker.

http://www.philosophersguild.com/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Little-Thinker.html

Along with, among other things...

  • Etgar Keret Interview with Granta

  • Pandora's Box

  • The Gothic Sublime

  • Total Perspective Vortex

  • Interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs

  • Monty Python

  • Jeff Noon

  • Triptych

  • "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly - into the past."

  • Between the World and Me: Empathy is a Privilege

  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

  • Kindred by Octavia Butler

  • Myth of Sisyphus and Camus' essay.

  • Shaggy dog stories

  • "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

  • The Social Meanings of Hats and T-shirts. And more on hats.

    • Also. Just so you know.

    "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things" - Rainer Maria Rilke

    Happy reading.

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