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On ch 6 The Throwing Nets

On ch 5: The Cocktail Party, of the Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman Course page: http://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/gamecool-books-golden-compass-by-philip.html?m=1

A discussion with celebrated author and scholar Verlyn Flieger, in which we do some serious thinking about The Golden Compass and its mythological and literary contexts. Verlyn's page on Signum University: https://signumuniversity.org/directory/verlyn-flieger/ Verlyn's website: http://mythus.com/ In lieu of recess this week there's a brief news segment and another music playlist for the imaginary...

On Chapter 4 of The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman: The Alethiometer. Recommended Reading: The Golden Compass Chapter 4: The Alethiometer The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake http://www.blakearchive.org/copy/mhh.d?descId=mhh.d.illbk.01 Pullman's illustrations for the chapter headings http://www.philip-pullman.com/Illustrations.php#

In which we discuss ch 3 of The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman, Lyra's Jordan, and imagine how it might look as a video game. (Errata: It's not the Sheldon Building where Lyra's Oxford opens, but the Lodge Tower. But I think the same sort of point could be made.) Recommended Reading: The Golden Compass Chapter 3: Lyra's Jordan Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake http://www.blake...

I'm joined by Sparrow Alden, Hestia of the Hearth on the Signum U forums, college instructor and preceptor, and youth pastor, to discuss The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman. We touch on the story's attractions--Lyra's character and her relationship to Pan--as well as its dangers--the way it represents an end to childhood no one would want to undergo. Sparrow's page on Signum University: https://...

The lantern slides of Lord Asriel counter the poisoned wine of the Master. Enmeshed in the political tension between the two, we hear about Dust, the Northern Lights, the Grumman expedition, the Magisterium, panserbjorne, and the alethiometer, which foretells of an adventure for Lyra. After the discussion of chapter 2 and its coda, we have a recess including Pan's first transformation and Lyra's f...

The Golden Compass series of Bookwarm Games begins! From an overview of the project, we open the discussion with Philip Pullman's relationship to Milton, Blake, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien; set out the dominant themes of the relationship between Lyra and her daemon, and of innocence and experience; consider how these are reflected in the opening of the story and the reader's experience of it. Then to...

Concluding the series on EarthBound by considering the Apple of Enlightenment, prophecy, and time travel, with readings from Genesis 3, Kant, and Itoi

Through the Cave of the Past to the final battle with Giygas and Pokey, reading aloud from them, from the game's letters and lyrics, and from Augustine, who knows something about prayer

A homecoming reminiscent of Frodo's and Odysseus', famous Saturnisms, and riding meteorites to the past

A ping-pong game of thoughts on EarthBound: courage, wisdom, friendship, travel and time-travel. We also touch on FF Tactics, myth and history, and archaeology-love

With Ness in Magicant and the Sea of Eden where he beats his Nightmare and hears his own voice, with Jung on dreams and the shadow

A talk with my friend Pat about Where the Wild Things Are and rites of passage, the limits of EarthBound and FF8, and what country music has to do with The American Patrick Corporation

We get the final note and hear the whole melody, with some amateur musicology and some Alcibiades I

Falling down, distance, abyss, Aristophanes' Frogs and the big Talking Rock

From the Library to the Lost Underworld, with glances at Stages on Life's Way, Casey at the Bat, and Sirens of Titan

Through Deep Darkness and Stonehenge, meeting the one outgoing Tenda, rescuing friends and strangers, loving your enemies, with an excerpt from Conrad's luminous Heart of Darkness

The embodiment of the total work of art, and its drawbacks

Defeating the Kraken, visiting Scaraba, and dancing in front of the Sphinx, we descend voluntarily to recover the Hawk Eye, quoting from Peterson's Maps of Meaning, about which more can be found on The History of Western Thought page on facebook

Visiting brother Elliot last week made me think I'd better have Mom and Dad on the show! I caught them before dinnertime to discuss Sunday board games, passing the baton, and World Cup predictions. (Please bear with the audio crashing around the midway point.)

On Spoon and Fork's war, the father of all things (Heraclitus), the Pyramids and Sphinx (Black Athena, Phaedrus, Origins and History of Consciousness), and the Your Sanctuary spots through Magnet Hill and Pink Cloud. But the second half of the recording is all a Museum Day, and can be safely skipped

Poo's training in Dalaam, Mu in Zen, some Siddhartha and Tao Te Ching

Summers (with a brief stopover in Winters), Stoics, Epictetus and Boethius, and Magic cake

Mr Schmid (on anchor and on facebook: search his name and/or The History of Western Thought) and I discuss play and competition, science and magic, and IQ in EarthBound and here at home. Apologies for a couple of audio outages due to psychic attacks.