#68: Gilead (ep. 6)

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Marilynne Robinson's beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead. Topics include ways the parable of the prodigal son show up in the book, Jack Boughton's concerns about being "elect," rejection vs. restoration, Jack's loneliness, and much more. This episode covers pages 160-188.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reeds here on the Circe Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.7	I am David Kern, and as always, I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.
0:14.0	How's it going, guys?
0:15.0	It's going great.
0:16.1	Beautifully, David.
0:17.3	David, how are you?
0:20.6	Okay, just how are you? Okay, just how are you?
0:26.1	I don't know. Stop trying to be the nice guy in the podcast. No, I am the nice guy.
0:32.0	David always asks how we're doing. Yeah, because he's the host.
0:40.0	Oh, like, so he has to be nice.
0:40.8	Yes.
0:42.8	He has to ask us how we're doing.
0:46.9	And you're just like, you derail the flow of the show and you just stop it. And you're like, Mr. Rogers' neighborhood.
0:48.5	And you're putting on your comfy shoes and your sweater.
0:50.6	And like, the whole thing just slows down.
0:53.1	Yeah, Tim.
0:54.0	Thanks a lot.
0:54.8	After having listened to the Close Reads music, I feel like putting on some comfortable
0:58.9	slippers and curling up by not quite roaring fire because it's not fall yet, but a, oh gosh,
1:08.4	a smoldering fire.
1:12.6	You want the fire the morning after you, like like when you've been sleeping all night in your tent
1:15.1	you want that fire at the end of the night
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