Back at full strength, the boys discuss the first entry of the final cycle of the season, "Mirth" -- Friedrich's selection of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. They discuss the book's strange format as a work that blends fiction and pseudo-philosophy, and Carlyle's unique brand of satire. They also talk about clothes, about German idealism and Romanticism, and who is the podcast's resident dandy.
Then, in a new episode of PoMoFooFac, the boys try the strange elixir known as Mountain Dew Flaming Hot. Will Karl's Kleen Kanteen preserve any semblance of bubblage? Will Friedrich and Søren design a 90s scrolling platformer game starring the adorable, finger glove wearing Dew Spark? Listen on to find out!
Theme music: "Shostakovich," by Mucca Pazza
A Slight Eructation of the Valve (John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces)
An Astonishing Parade of Nullity (Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman)
The Watchers Karamazov Bonus Film Episode: Devil in a Blue Dress and In a Lonely Place
In the Sand and on the Rocks (Dorothy B. Hughes’ In a Lonely Place)
When the Voice Speaks, I Listen (Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress)
There Still Remains the Cocaine-Bottle (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four)
Smoking Cigarettes While the World Burns (Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)
A Bicephalous Old Tumater Woman (Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz)
Epochs on Both Your Houses (Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund, Plus Postmodern Food Factory ”Crap Sampler”)
The Key to the Shaft of the Abyss (The Name of the Rose Days 5, 6, and 7)
The Name of the Star Is Wormwood (The Name of the Rose Days 3+4)
Bonus Episode: The Grand Inquisitor
There Came Hail and Fire Mixed with Blood (The Name of the Rose Days 1+2)
Unrest in Visited Tombs (W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn + Bud Light Ugly Sweater Pack)
The Readers Karamazov, Podcasters of Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (Jorge Luis Borges‘ ”Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” and ”The Library of Babel”
Who Watches De Watchman? (Michelle Cliff‘s No Telephone to Heaven)
A Caramel Apple Bobbing in Furmity (Thomas Hardy‘s The Mayor of Casterbridge + Red Hot Riplets Caramel Apple)
One of Those Headgears of Composite Order (Gustave Flaubert‘s Madame Bovary)
The Sea‘s Soft, Close Embrace (Kate Chopin‘s The Awakening)
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