CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of suicide.

Michael and Ethan begin their discussion of Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy, while drinking Bunnahabhain 12yo single malt.

In this episode:

We’re sleeping together on the couch/futon tonight

Cover blurbs, or, the marketing materials are contributing to the discussion of what these books are

Hot takes on Pynchon cover blurbs, with a side-route into conspiracy

Is Stella Maris a coda?

If you stretch, and stretch, and stretch, and bring in GK Chesterton, maybe anything can be repaired

Why do Bobby and the Thalamide Kid both have flippers replacing certain digits?

Is the story a Socratic dialogue, a Platonic dialogue, or a story where the character Alicia is constructing a Socratic/Platonic dialogue?

Mathematics vs. philosophy vs. the looney bin

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