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I'm Alan and I'm Sean and together we host the prancing pony podcast.

Every week I explore Middle Earth with Sean or with other co-hosts lately with in-depth analysis and plenty of nerd humor.

From The Hobbit to the Lord of the Rings and more,

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Podcast, wherever you listen. Hello, what happens when your stages of life blur into one

another? Shakespeare gave us some insight into that, and our guest today, Lori Frankel,

has written a novel that explores it in a big and getting bigger way. Spoiler alert.

Lori Frankel's enormous wings and Lori Frankel herself today on the history of literature.

Okay, here we go. I'm Jack Wilson, your host. Welcome to the podcast. This is a fun one.

Our longtime friend of the show, Lori Frankel is here, and she's going to tell us all about her new novel, Enormous Wings.

But first, let's start with Shakespeare. I don't think Lori will mind. This comes from the play, as you like it.

It's one of Shakespeare's most famous passages.

He condenses the entirety of human life into 25 lines or so.

He said, well, before we get to what he says, let's remember, of course, that Shakespeare

himself was a creature of the theater, a playwright, an actor,

what was called a sharer, which, in other words, is a partial owner and operator of the productions.

So the metaphor here comes naturally to him, all the world's a stage, and all the men and women,

merely players.

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