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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to like razor blade pie, tasty. |
0:24.0 | I'm your host Michael Swam and this is a bite sized book club where we dive into the |
0:29.1 | short speculative fiction of my favorite author Harlan Ellison and the story we're covering |
0:35.4 | today is called the man who wrote Christopher Columbus ashore as well as like shagging |
0:40.5 | fungos and some other it's called a lot of stuff we'll get into it and I have a great |
0:45.0 | guest and pal who I'm very excited to bring into the conversation in a little bit but |
0:50.4 | right before we do that I wanted to read you some lines from the introduction of the collection |
0:56.2 | that this story is in which is called slippage because I think they will really make |
1:01.3 | for an excellent framing of the discussion to come so oh and furthermore I just want |
1:07.9 | to say I've been very much wanting to prove to you guys why Harlan Ellison is my favorite |
1:15.0 | author and I've actually by chance picked some stories where he writes in a fairly straightforward |
1:20.1 | manner but this introduction mmm because you wrote slippage near the end of his life it's |
1:24.7 | like peak Ellison so this is what Ellison writes like and I just wanted to share with you |
1:29.9 | because it delights me at a textural level Ellison says in the intro to slippage and he's |
1:36.4 | describing an earthquake here so I think that's all the info you need the unimaginative say |
1:42.3 | it sounds like a train coming toward you bullshit nothing like a train I used to ride the |
1:47.2 | freight like a bindel stiff when I was a kid trains have a decent sound to them a good sound |
1:52.5 | tough but a willing to accommodate you this damned thruster had absolutely nothing in common |
1:58.0 | with the train then there are those whose best analogy is it was a deep rumbling noise |
2:03.4 | your ass a deep rumbling noise is what you get out of your stomach when you've had too many |
2:07.5 | baby backs and hot links a cranky bear makes a deep rumbling noise the radiator the water pipes |
2:13.9 | trying to carry the load crusty the clown makes a deep rumbling noise I'll tell you precisely |
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