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No Such Thing As A Fish

63: No Such Thing As An Anti-German Sock

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Hay Literary Festival, Dan, James, Andy and Anna discuss the world's first novel, a Beatle as Gandalf, and the inventor of the television.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode.

0:23.0

So to no such thing as a fish this week coming to you from the hay festival in hay.

0:30.0

My name is Dan Schreiber. I'm sitting here with three other QILs.

0:33.0

It's Anich Zinski, James Harkin, and Andy Murray.

0:36.0

And once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.

0:40.0

And in no particular order, here we go.

0:43.0

Starting with you, Chuzinski.

0:46.0

Yes, did you mention that these are specifically literary facts?

0:49.0

Absolutely.

0:51.0

Chuzinski, yeah.

0:52.0

Because it's a literary festival.

0:54.0

Yeah. And that's why I said it.

0:56.0

That's why I thought he said it.

0:58.0

So my literary fact is that the first ever novel ended mid-sentence.

1:05.0

And this is a Japanese novel called The Tale of Genji.

1:09.0

It was written in the early 11th century, so probably 1008, I think.

1:15.0

And yeah, ended in the middle of a sentence.

1:17.0

Was it like a cliffhanger ending?

1:19.0

Not as melodramatic, but a character is introducing another to someone.

1:24.0

And the end saying, Karu introduces him to the...

1:27.0

You never find out who.

1:29.0

And people don't know if that was intentional, or if she just died in the middle of gay bar, got bored.

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