121 - A Voyage to the Moon

On this episode, we talk writing routines, positive and negative nodes of discourse, imaginary worlds, psychoarchaeology, utilizing A Voyage to the Moon to map the psyche of thinkers of the path, and perhaps to rewrite our own internal maps. Kris tasks David with developing a play about Darwin's theory of evolution...to be put on by a sixth-grade class.

Authors who set out visions of the Moon and other worlds pre-modernity:

Plutarch

Cicero

Lucian

Wilkins

Godwin

Defoe

de Bergerac

Dante

Chaucer

Swedenborg

Kepler’s Dream

Other notes:

Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday

Brill Building

A Voyage to the Moony by Cyrano de Bergerac