All the Pretty Horses: Episode 4

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Oh boy. It's time to talk about one of the most intense passages in All the Pretty Horses, a passage which also happens to be deeply beautiful. Beware: Tim and David get a little carried away in this one.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Tim McIntosh. And you are listening to
0:07.2	Closerie. It's a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are discussing Cormac McCarthy's All the
0:11.5	Pretty Horses. And boy, does this novel get rough. We're going to talk about part three.
0:17.5	It's so good. I know, right. It's so good. I know, right. I know. It's great.
0:22.9	But it is part three that we're going to talk about today.
0:24.8	This is the longest section of reading that we're going to have in the whole book.
0:28.3	So that will, you know, there's a lot to talk about in this section.
0:31.4	And we'll do a little summary here in a minute.
0:32.8	But first, we need to check in with the people.
0:36.5	Heidi, how are you Tim how are you
0:38.0	I'm doing great Tim though yeah Tim suffers Tim has been to the valley of the shadow of
0:44.7	death the last seven days were bad enough that I went to the doctor's office for the second time.
0:55.9	This is like actually a normal thing to do.
0:57.8	But to you,
0:58.8	it seems really not.
0:59.9	Why did you put doctor's office?
1:01.5	Doctor's office in like Professor Air quotes.
1:04.3	All caps.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:05.9	Because I think that's the second time I've been to a doctor's office in 10 years.
1:11.1	Okay.
1:11.4	The last time that I went.
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