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75. My Life.

37:25

74. Shapes of Native Nonfiction.

42:34

73. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back.

45:19

72. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne.

44:15

71. Troilus and Criseyde.

53:56

76b. Ned Raggett on The Return of the King.

"It’s interesting to consider the last twenty years of [Tolkien’s] life, post-Lord of the Rings, when he was looking at what he created. He was doing some very heavy rethinks about what he had done-the structure of the worlds that he had created and the implications of a lot of it."
Ned Raggett is a librarian and freelance music writer, whose recent essays have appeared in outlets like the Quietus, the Wire, Shfl, Qobuz, and on his lovely (and free-to-follow) Patreon. And he’s also one of the hosts of the Megaphonic podcast By-The-Bywater, which looks at all things J.R.R. Tolkien-his work, his inspirations and impact, creative interpretations in other media, languages, lore, ripoffs, parodies, and anything he and his co-hosts think is interesting!.
Ned joins Chris and Suzanne for a wide-ranging discussion about the various people who read and get something out of The Lord of the Rings, as well as Tolkien’s changing relationship with his work over time.
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The Spouter-Inn is a podcast where Suzanne and Chris talk about great books-but what does “great” even mean?
★ Show notes: megaphonic.fm/spouter/76b
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★ Hosted by Chris Piuma and Suzanne Conklin Akbari
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00:00 - Ned Raggett.
01:11 - Getting into Tolkien.
09:35 - Diversifying readings and reactions.
18:39 - Leaving out the Scouring of the Shire?
24:37 - The appendices and worldbuilding.
27:50 - Favourite moments.
32:21 - Mordor.
38:38 - Tolkien revisiting.
45:36 - Further reading.
51:43 - Wrap up.

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1:03:30

76. The Return of the King.

มุมมอง 2614 วันที่ผ่านมา

And then at last over the miles between there came a rumble, rising to a deafening crash and roar; the earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. Fire belched from its riven summit. The skies burst into thunder seared with lightning. Down like lashing whips fell a torrent of black rain. And into the heart of the storm, with a cry that pierced all other sounds, tearing the c...

37:25

75. My Life.

มุมมอง 23หลายเดือนก่อน

In the museum, attention shifted from painting to painting, the eye forced around, so that it was impossible to focus on any single work. The nightmare was of a giant bluebottle fly which buzzed, “I’m all there is.” Where cars don’t go are shortcuts. My grandfather was forced to recognize his age when another, younger, man offered his seat on the bus. When one travels, one might “hit” a storm. ...

42:34

74. Shapes of Native Nonfiction.

มุมมอง 172 หลายเดือนก่อน

We conceive of the essay as an exquisite vessel, one that evidences the delicate balance of beauty and pain. The ‘exquisite’ character of this vessel invokes simultaneously an exquisite work of art and the exquisite ache of an intense sensation. By bringing to the fore a focus on form, in both the structure and the concept of the collection, we use the term exquisite vessel not just to name the...

45:19

73. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back.

มุมมอง 212 หลายเดือนก่อน

Storytelling is an emergent practice, and meaning for each individual listener will necessarily be different. The relationships between the storyteller and the listeners become the nest that cradles the meaning. The storyteller creates both the context and the content and collectively a plurality of meanings are generated through the experiences of the audience. The “analysis” and the “critical...

44:15

72. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne.

มุมมอง 242 หลายเดือนก่อน

When lately I retired to my house resolved that, in so far as I could, I would cease to concern myself with anything except the passing in rest and retirement of the little time I still have to live, I could do my mind no better service than to leave it in complete idleness to commune with itself, to come to rest, and to grow settled; which I hoped it would thenceforth be able to do more easily...

53:56

71. Troilus and Criseyde.

มุมมอง 66ปีที่แล้ว

Allas, of me, unto the worldes ende, Shal neither been ywriten nor ysonge No good word, for thise bokes wol me shende. O, rolled shal I been on many a tonge; Thurghout the world my belle shal be ronge; And wommen most wol hate me of alle. Allas, that swich a cas me sholde falle! (Alas! Until the end of the world, no good word will be written or sung about me, because these books will utterly sh...

70b. Bonus: Dick Davis on Translating Persian Poetry.

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70b. Bonus: Dick Davis on Translating Persian Poetry.

มุมมอง 62ปีที่แล้ว

There’s a feeling, I think, in English poetry that you have to be original. That feeling isn’t really there in Persian poetry until the very modern period. Then it is. But before then, there’s a kind of sense that there’s this vast treasury of possibilities in poetry which everybody has used-and you can use them too. Dick Davis is an award-winning poet and translator, famous for his translation...

59:20

70. Layli and Majnun.

มุมมอง 27ปีที่แล้ว

Her voice was sweet and liquid, like a stream That lulls all other streams to sleep and dream; Her eyes like doe’s eyes, whose dark gaze would make A lion lie down dazed, and half awake. She seemed an alphabet of loveliness, Curved letters were the curling of each tress, Straight letters were her stature, and her lips Were like a letter formed as an ellipse, And all the letters made her like th...

69b. Bonus: Mark Sundaram and Aven McMaster on Etymology.

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69b. Bonus: Mark Sundaram and Aven McMaster on Etymology.

มุมมอง 9ปีที่แล้ว

Language is so personal and internal. It exists in your head. You can close your eyes and plug your ears and not engage with the outside world at all, and yet you still have language going on. So I think one of the things that attracts people to [etymology] is, it’s discussing something that they feel they have a part in. Mark Sundaram is a medievalist and linguist who specializes in the histor...

48:19

69. The Etymologies.

มุมมอง 17ปีที่แล้ว

”The word “amicus” - meaning “friend” - comes from a derivation, as if it were “animi custos”, or “guardian of the soul”. And this is well put! The term for someone tormented by carnal desire is “amator turpitudinis”, a lover of wickedness. But “friend”, “amicus”, is from the word “hamus”, a hook - in other words, the chain of charity, since hooks hold on.“ The Etymologies, by the seventh-centu...

58:19

68. The Consolation of Philosophy.

มุมมอง 15ปีที่แล้ว

“Now I know,” she said, “that other, more serious cause of your sickness: you have forgotten what you are. So I really understand why you are ill and how to cure you. For because you are wandering, forgetful of your true self, you grieve that you are an exile and stripped of your goods; since indeed you do not know the goal and end of all things, you think that evil and wicked men are fortunate...

19b. Bonus: Simone de Rochefort on Ernest Hemingway.

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19b. Bonus: Simone de Rochefort on Ernest Hemingway.

มุมมอง 41ปีที่แล้ว

"For me, in coming to Hemingway in the 2010s as a queer woman, to start reading the work of this man who can be incredibly polarizing and incredibly cruel to women and queer people (although that’s very complicated…)-for me, having the context of who he was and the dramatic backstory behind [The Sun Also Rises] made me able to deal with the ugly parts of it a little more." Simone de Rochefort i...

1:37

Welcome to The Spouter-Inn!

มุมมอง 181ปีที่แล้ว

Welcome to The Spouter-Inn, a podcast about great books! Join Chris and Suzanne (and their guests) as they talk about their excitement and love of these great books-and as they think about what it even means when we call a book “great”. The Spouter-Inn is a podcast where Suzanne and Chris talk about great books-but what does “great” even mean? ★ Additional episodes: www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/ ★...

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19. A Moveable Feast.

มุมมอง 82ปีที่แล้ว

"You got very hungry when you did not eat enough in Paris because all the bakery shops had such good things in the windows and people ate outside at tables on the sidewalk so that you saw and smelled the food. When you had given up journalism and were writing nothing that anyone in America would buy [...] you could always go into the Luxembourg Museum and all the paintings were sharpened and cl...