A Canticle for Liebowitz: Chapters 1-8

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Once more into the breach of a new book! We haven’t done many science fiction titles on the show (Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy notwithstanding and that certainly not post-apocalyptic sci-fi), so this week we discuss how it was conceived, why it’s readable (and even pleasurable) despite it’s dark circumstances, and why the ideas in this book matter. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:03.9	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.9	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:07.3	Oh, he made it through.
0:08.7	Yeah, John.
0:09.2	Well done.
0:10.3	You're listening to Closer Read the Podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing a new book.
0:16.3	It's Walter Miller's A Cancical for Leibowitz.
0:20.6	A Cancicle for Leibovitz a cancical for Libavits.
0:21.8	You know, I, we need to...
0:23.7	Mybel outs.
0:25.0	Yeah, we need to decide this at what we're going to call it,
0:27.3	because I did find different pronunciations of this.
0:31.4	Sean, as a resident Walter Miller expert,
0:34.3	do you know the answer to this?
0:37.8	I have only ever heard the squishy W.
0:43.9	Leibowitz?
0:45.3	Leibowitz?
0:45.6	Wits, yeah, not the hard German W.
0:48.0	Okay, that's what we're doing.
0:49.0	All right, we're doing that then.
0:49.8	We're going to do in the squishy dub.
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