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| 0:00.0 | Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation. |
| 0:08.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:11.0 | You are a very special breed. |
| 0:15.0 | Or you are the only animal. |
| 0:19.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello and welcome to bookworm. |
| 0:25.1 | This is Michael Silverblatt, |
| 0:26.8 | and today my guest |
| 0:28.3 | is C.S. Godchalk, |
| 0:30.5 | Chris Godchalk, |
| 0:31.9 | the author of a first novel, |
| 0:34.5 | Kalimantan, |
| 0:35.6 | which has been published |
| 0:36.8 | by Henry Holt. Now, I was very taken by this novel, |
| 0:43.2 | especially on the level of its language, its diction, its syntax. It's set in the 19th century, |
| 0:50.8 | in Borneo, actually all around the Malaysian Peninsula. And so it's a book, |
| 0:58.0 | as I think most books should be, that opens a world of language, vocabulary, concepts, |
| 1:06.6 | places that is unfamiliar. Therefore, it's a book that it's possible to dream in, because it |
| 1:13.1 | often murmurs to you in a language that at first is bewildering. And I wanted to ask you, |
| 1:22.1 | it seems to me, that you would have had to search considerably to find out how to tell where the beginning, in fact, of this story might be. |
| 1:35.6 | That's actually very perceptive. |
| 1:38.5 | And time-wise, I think it took about two years before I felt |
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