The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books. A literary podcast. We're over at the other place now: https://xitter.cf/t.co/TqPjzXvy6i
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2019
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For our new bonus episode, @Alliterative and @AvenSarah from @AllEndlessKnot joined us for a conversation about the joys of etymology and the delights of reading dictionaries.
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We’ll take any chance to talk about etymology! 😁 And if you haven’t listened to their related episode about Isidore, the great medieval etymologist, we heartily recommend it!
For our new bonus episode, @Alliterative and @AvenSarah from @AllEndlessKnot joined us for a conversation about the joys of etymology and the delights of reading dictionaries.
megaphonic.fm/spouter/69b
In our recent episode on the Etymologies, I mentioned the ancient theory that 1 didn’t count as a number, but I didn’t have time to get into why. And now YouTube recommends this video to me, which explains the history in the first few minutes. Nice!
youtube.com/watch?v=R33RoMO6…
And now, the episode that three of you were waiting for, the one where we read an encyclopedia! Oh, but Isidore's Etymologies are so much more than that — maybe we'll convince that this book is something special.
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ALT A cat curls up on a good book.
A fascinating piece about editing!
In remembrance of Robert Gottlieb, who died today, we’ve unlocked his Art of Editing interview from our archive.
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100 gets all the attention, but 101 is also a nice number. It’s palindromic, it’s prime, what’s not to love?
Happy #Bloomsday! We celebrate the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses by taking a look at this massive omniumgatherum of a book. Mrkrgnao! megaphonic.fm/spouter/57
ALT Cat places a paw on a copy of Ulysses.
In our new episode, we look at Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. It's got poetry, it's got prose, it's got autobiography, it's got neoplatonist philosophy. What more could you want?
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ALT A cat looks at you severely. Beside it, a copy of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy (the Loeb edition, with the Latin, which this cat has studied during long nights).
New! We look at the erotic — and therefore devotional? — lyric poetry of The Song of Songs. And we also take a peek at some of the medieval commentaries on the poem, which also get spicy...
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ALT A cat demurely walks into a tableau with some wine, some milk, and some erotic poetry.
This is happening today! So excited.
Chris is in Portland (Oregon) for a bit and will be participating in this marathon reading of works by Jackson Mac Low and Gertrude Stein. Sunday, starting at noon at Passages Bookshop. Come by if you're interested! facebook.com/events/19370183…
Chris is in Portland (Oregon) for a bit and will be participating in this marathon reading of works by Jackson Mac Low and Gertrude Stein. Sunday, starting at noon at Passages Bookshop. Come by if you're interested! facebook.com/events/19370183…
In the latest episode of The Spouter-Inn, we take a look at the classical Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, in Anne Carson's translations. And we consider its exploration of what we owe each other, including what we owe the dead.
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ALT A black cat tries to cover Antigone's face on a copy of the play.
Friend of the show @doomquasar made a video about games based on The Great Gatsby (and about copyright overreach). Absolutely check it (and the games) out!
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In our latest episode, we look at The Epic of Gilgamesh, a three thousand (or so) year old poem about Gilgamesh (a king who is two-thirds divine) and his beloved Enkidu.
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ALT A cat looks out, surely thinking of Enkidu's fate, near two translations of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Our episode on The Epic of Gilgamesh is coming soon. I'm curious: Is there anything (book, painting, whatever) inspired by or responding to the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu that you particularly love?
ALT Gilgamesh making an appearance in the video game Civilization VI.
We follow up our episode on Blind Owl with a special bonus episode with its translator, the poet and scholar Sassan Tabatabai (@TabatabaiSassan). We dig a little deeper into the book's many mysteries, as well as the mysterious art of translation.
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ALT Three books by Sassan Tabatabai: Uzunburun: Poems; Sufi Haiku; and his translation of Sadeq Hedayat's Blind Owl.
We love to see it.
in honor of Gertrude Stein’s birthday, enjoy 2 adorable boys (now adults I’d guess) in high school reciting from memory opening lines of “Patriarchal Poetry.” youtu.be/wRHZnW76TNs
New! We read Sadeq Hedayat's classic novel Blind Owl (translated by @TabatabaiSassan, published by @PenguinClassics). It's a disquieting tale about a pen-case painter who is haunted by the image he paints again and again…
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ALT A cat sleeps next to a copy of Sadeq Hedayat's Blind Owl; a similar looking cat sleeps behind it, like a sort of reflection of the first cat — a copy cat, perhaps?
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I’ve read a lot about the Aeneid, and bits of it, but never the sporting contests. The Spouter Inn, on book 5: do recommend.
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