128 Top 10 Animals in Literature (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our look at animals in literature, we’re joined by Mike Palindrome, President of the Literature Supporters Club, for a discussion of the Top 10 Animals in Literature. Did your favorite make the list? Did we leave it out altogether? Let us know! Authors, works, and animals discussed include William Shakespeare, Michael Chabon, Jack London, Rilke, C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Christopher Smart, Master and Margarita, Charlotte’s Web, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, the Cheshire Cat, The Jungle Book, Roald Dahl, T.S. Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Toto the Dog, Watership Down, Frog and Toad, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, William Blake, Franz Kafka, Ovid, Beverly Cleary, Jaws, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Carbonel: King of the Cats, Paddington, The Wind in the Willows, Ferdinand the Bull, and George Orwell. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, hello, hello, welcome to the show. I'm your host Jack Wilson. I'm actually on vacation as you're listening to this
0:37.2	If you're listening in January 2017. I post this
0:43.0	Scheduled to post this before I left.
0:45.0	But who knows when you're actually listening to this,
0:48.0	you know it's strange how this works,
0:49.0	it really could be at any time after January 2017. And in fact, what seems to happen when I look at the
0:59.9	podcast statistics is that people listen to the most recent show first and then they work their way backwards.
1:07.0	And our audience grows over time, it keeps getting larger and larger as more and more people find us or hear about us.
1:15.6	So it occurred to me that most listeners, most people who are listening to the show are actually
1:19.3	listening to it in reverse.
1:21.1	They didn't start with episode zero and move all the way up to
1:24.8	128. They started at something in the future. Episode 200 maybe and they've worked
1:31.9	their way down.
1:34.0	So they have heard more of those shows than I have.
1:37.0	They know more about the show than I do.
1:40.0	That's so strange, it's my show. And yet I'm sitting here in the dark and they're fully
1:46.8	informed. Maybe they've listened to all the previous shows too. Maybe they started at
1:52.0	show 500, listened all the way down to
1:55.9	episode 129, then they went back to show zero and listened all the way forward up
2:02.4	to 127 and here we are episode 128. For me
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