In this episode the CenterForLit crew looks at what is perhaps the most universal of all the questions: the problem of pain. It goes something like this, “If we live in a world governed by a good and just God, why do innocent people suffer?” We trace a common desire for justice and revenge in works of art old and new, and look for signs of hope that one day our wrongs will be righted.

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Referenced Works:

– You’ve Got Mail (1998), directed by Nora Ephron

– While You Were Sleeping (1995), directed by John Turteltaub

– Man Up (2015), directed by Ben Palmer

– That Awkward Moment (2014), directed by Tom Gormican

– The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), directed by Clint Eastwood

– Philadelphia Story  (1940), directed by George Cukor

– The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis

– Amadeus (1984), directed by Miloš Forman

– Jacob Collier/Chris Martin Sparks performance

– The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevksy

– Inglorious B******s (2009), Django Unchained (2012), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) and 2 (2004), Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino

– Between Noon and Three by Robert Farrar Capon

– Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy: How to Philosophize with a Pair of Pliers and a Blowtorch, edited by Richard Greene and K. Silem Mohammad

– Hamlet by William Shakespeare

– The Book of Job

– Straw into Gold and Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

– Pelican Society Membership

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