The boys head back to Middlemarch to keep exploring. After an interesting reader comment comparing the book's characters to those in Twin Peaks, they set out to see what makes Parts III & IV work. Along the way they praise the simple nobility of Caleb Garth, use Blaise Pascal's theories of diversion to explain the restlessness of characters, and tackle the famous "pierglass" discourse as a way to think about the book's narration.
Theme song: "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)
A Podcast of Things in General (Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus + Mt. Dew Flaming Hot)
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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