A Canticle for Leibowitz – Part 2

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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We talk about the second part of Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Content warnings for: racism, antisemitism, suicide On the next episode, we’re discussing Part 3 of A Canticle for Leibowitz. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael… Continue reading

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0:13.0	Oh Oh Welcome to Shelf by genre, a show about types of literature on the worlds they imagine.
0:35.3	We are continuing our unit on post-apocalypse by continuing the book, A Canticle for
0:41.9	Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr.
0:45.6	Today we are talking about Fiat Lux, which is part two of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
0:57.5	I'm Cameron, and with me, as always, are the dueling intellects Michael and Austin.
1:06.3	Oh, well, yes. Are we really covering part two? Are we really covering the second thing that Miller wrote, which he later collected into
1:13.3	what is now sold as Canticle for Lieberwitz?
1:16.5	We might even consider it part five, as there would be a concomitant with the circular
1:23.3	nature of time presented by the novel, a complementary three parts prior to the start,
1:28.9	like some sort of inmedius res opus.
1:32.0	In fact, I reject the notion that he wrote Canticle-Freeboats.
1:35.7	He revealed it from nature itself.
1:39.1	All things are already extant given to us by the creator and any supposition to the otherwise,
1:46.2	heretical at best, misguided, maybe evil at worst.
1:51.0	That's actually flipped.
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