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Continuing our reading and reflecting on the magical mayhem of Ariosto's countless characters whose names we can't--or don't want to--recall. Thanks for listening.

We consider the curious case of Foucault's Pendulum, Eco's conspiratorial follow-up to the Name of the Rose. Thanks for listening.

Musing on another "beguiling" little book and its companionable relationship to His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Not the "little green book" we were (possibly?) promised, about Will as a surgeon and all, but a dark green one anyway in which his absence and other absences are palpable. Interview by Susie Mesure - https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/philip-pullman-serpentin...

Ariosto's epic-romantic song of knights and magic, spared from the burning of the books in Don Quixote. Thanks for listening.

AKA Blade Runner. We consider the source material by Philip K Dick. Thanks for listening.

Another little book in the His Dark Materials/Book of Dust series, not about Lyra but her mother. Sort of. Recommended: Kate Bush, Lyra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5PmGIBfNg About the dedication - https://www.thebookseller.com/news/audible-offers-strike-relief-free-pullman-story-441276 Duparc, Lenore Millais, Portrait of Ruskin Charpentier, https://www.nga.gov/artworks/215417-death-archime...

Continuing our playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics with a review of events leading up to the battle at Zeirchele Falls. Thanks for listening!

On summer break, we three night scholars have decided to try reading outside our usual canons and genres, starting with the highly allusive, at times bizarre, but overall quite epic and gripping sci-fi novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Up next: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick (aka Blade Runner) Thanks for listening.

Gaetan is a longtime denizen of Cittagazze, the premier French-language source for news and gathering-place for readers of Philip Pullman. Among his contributions, the page dedicated to the poetry of The Book of Dust: https://www.cittagazze.com/univers/poesie.php?version=en Thanks for listening!

Dr Elizabeth Walsh is a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge and has written on the curation of Pullman's work and inspirations in museums. His Dark Materials Among the Displays , the Pitt Rivers Museum, December 12, 2022 to December 31, 2023   University of Cambridge Department of Geography faculty page for Dr Walsh   Another resource for The Peril of the Pole game included in On...

We final-fantastically get back into Tactics Ivalice Edition on Switch, recapping most of what makes it fun and at times tedious up through the end of the first chapter. Thanks for listening.

Concluding our series on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. Next we're weighing Ariosto or Rabelais, and in the meantime, Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Maira Kalman on "Time wastes too fast" - https://archive.nytimes.com/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/ Thanks for listening

"and we're all still here, by the grace of God" Out of the Ground: Reading The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman On ch 14 Lady With Monkey and ch 15 The Potting Shed Recommended reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastica#:~:text=Scholastica%20is%20honored%20as%20a,feast%20day%20is%2010%20February .  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%202&vers...

The indomitable Professor Kozlowski brings out his Notes on Philip Pullman for the History of British Magic lecture series, available on patreon and spotify: https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-phillip-158980054?source=storefront In this preview, we work out ideas about how the dear bete noir Pullman and the redoubtable magus Alan Moore, among others, stack up in their recent books, The Rose Fi...

On ch 12 and 13 of La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman. Recommended reading: Gen 6-9 Joyce, "Araby" Thanks for listening

Slightly touching on 7, but mostly dealing with 6: the bowling green/model fortifications/paradise of Uncle Toby. Thanks for listening.

Further hobby-horsical misadventures with our diverting narrator and the cast of his meandering novel. Thanks for listening.

A taking stock and looking ahead sort of conversation in the middle of the journey of our life. Thanks for listening.

Of names and noses, fortifications and divagations--and other hobby-horses. Thanks for listening.

As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about the overview of a possible lecture series they've been cooking up on religious narratives in popular culture. Thanks for listening.

As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky (again), and then about a little-known masterpiece on philosophy of language... Preliminary to a possible lecture series Ben's cooking up on...

As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky, and then about a film called The Book of Clarence... Preliminary to a possible lecture series Ben's cooking up on religious narratives in p...

Slight spoilers: it's teamwork. Also the religious substrate of the zodiac; the transcendence of calculations; the harmonious imbalance of bravery and faith; the rigors of preparation for pivotal battles... Many thanks to Ryan and Pat for joining me for this late-night conversation, an echo of many a hangout from days of yore around lower Deer Park Dr, and one hopefully to be continued in anot...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman--sampled at hazard we find de gustibus, ab ovo, and Alas, poor YORICK! which translated seem to mean "of tastes, from the egg, and [church bell tolling a black page]" as near as I can tell. The opening volume of Sterne's comic modern masterpiece delights and eggs us on. Thanks for listening.

Professor Kozlowski, fresh off a whirlwind tour through 99 Hours of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, joins us to break down some of the highlights of the early game and frame story of FF Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles. https://videogameacademia.org/2026/03/22/99-hours-of-clair-obscur-expedition-33-part-one/ https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ Thanks for listening.