Let's visit ground zero of literary criticism.

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I analyze another children's tale, using Nietzsche, JG Frazer, and others.

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Delving into one of Borges' lesser-known works.

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Happy New Year, listeners!

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Please join me as I ramble about my two favorite holiday stories: (after a brief prelude on Dickens' A Christmas Carol) the 1993 film Groundhog Day, and James Joyce's 1914 (long) short story, "The Dead."

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Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?

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Are we all amphibians?

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Spiegel Im Spiegel Im Spiegel

It has been said that it is a symbol of the imagination--or of consciousness--in its capacity to reflect the formal reality of the visible world. It has also been related to thought, in so far as thought--for Scheler and other philosophers--is the instrument of self-contemplation as well as the reflection of the universe. This links mirror-symbolism with water as a reflector and with the Narcissus myth: the cosmos appears as a huge Narcissus regarding his own reflections in the human consciousness. --J.E. Cirlot

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More foolishness. Mere foolishness.

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With a new Pynchon novel and a new PT Anderson movie based on Pynchon's Vineland out, it's probably a good time to let this one out of the vault.