#37: Murder Must Advertise, Chapters 9-12
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their ongoing discussion of Dorothy Sayers' classic mystery novel, Murder Must Advertise, one of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories.
Topics include: Why Tim isn't overly excited about this book, what about it people most like, the modernism of the prose, the various jumping perspectives, and the theme of phantasms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Circe Institute podcast network. |
| 0:13.1 | You are listening to Close Reeds, whether or not you mean to. |
| 0:17.4 | I am David Kern, and I'm here with Angelina Sanford and Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:22.4 | Angelina and Tim. |
| 0:23.2 | It's the worst ever intro. |
| 0:27.0 | It's like so apologetic. |
| 0:29.0 | We're close reads and I'm sorry. |
| 0:31.5 | Oh, I'm not saying I'm sorry. |
| 0:33.3 | What I'm not able to fathom is how someone would end up listening to this and not mean to. |
| 0:38.5 | Like they're scrolling through their dial. |
| 0:40.8 | What's this? |
| 0:44.3 | They're like, wait, this is not the tractor pool channel? |
| 0:47.4 | So like, do you guys use a podcasting app or anything? |
| 0:51.3 | I do now. |
| 0:52.5 | Okay. |
| 0:52.7 | So, like, if you're using a podcasting app, you could, like, be listening to, I don't know, |
| 0:57.5 | your favorite discussion on how to bake chocolate chip cookies or whatever from, |
| 1:02.6 | or whatever. |
| 1:03.0 | And then you fall asleep. |
| 1:03.9 | And then when you wake up, all of a sudden you're listening to, like, a bunch of people |
| 1:06.7 | complain about a book or something. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, that would be a little bit weird. |
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