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Night School: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Here we are in the plague years of 1592-3, seeing what the "upstart crow" was up to while the theaters were closed. Thanks for listening!

Side Quests FFIX: Enlightened Beings Get Hitched (ep 10)

What's the plural of hieros gamos? We celebrate the totally real and binding nuptials of hero and heroine, then living doll and aspiring gourmand, who are immediately blessed with a new child, the last of the Summoners who communes with the Moogles, before traversing the Iifa Tree, breaking the seal and dissipating the Mist. More at https://videogameacademia.org/courses/current-semester/final-fantasy-ix/ Thanks for listening!

Night School: The Brothers Karamazov (4/4)

Part IV and the Epilogue, Smerdyakov and Iago, Dostoevsky and Shakespeare. Thanks for listening!

Side Quests FFIX: This light...There's no Mist here (ep 9)

Escaping death in Fossil Roo to reach the Outer Continent, where we compare Conde Petie and the Black Mage Village; the unobstructed light of the sky and the blue light of memory; the search for origins and the acceptance of mortality. And we don't forget about Quina! Thanks for listening!

Memory, Art, Identity

Jace invited me to think through some of the ways in which memory and art are almost identicalThanks, Jace, and thank you for listening! You can find links to our past conversations on Xenogears, etc. here: https://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2019/05/bookwarm-games-xenogears.html