It's a bright new day here on Young Heretics and I'm trying something completely new.

Today I literally have no idea what I am talking about. Maybe you think that I've had literally no idea what I was talking about this whole time,

and I wouldn't entirely disagree with you. You can write in and tell me what you think.

But I thought today we could have a little bit of a palette cleanser. We've been doing some pretty heavy stuff for several weeks now about science and anti-humanism and post-humanism and romanticism and German people and Gerta and all sorts of things and Faust and I think that series was just a hell of a good time and if you want to go back and listen to those feel free

But today we're venturing out into new territory. I got a cool listener question that suggested a new type of episode and I wanted to try this out and I would really love feedback on this if you want to write in and tell me whether you enjoy this

whether it's helpful to you or maybe it sucks and we never do it ever again that's

the beauty of the thing you tell me but here's a question that I got from Paul the Doomfish. I don't know if this is a

Twitter handle or what, but maybe I'm missing something and this is somebody I've interacted

with on Twitter, but I really like that name and Paul asked a couple questions the first

one is pretty straightforward and I will get to answering it but it's the second one

that I really want to pay attention to first of all he says can you recommend a book or other resource that would teach me the basics of poetry?

I keep hearing about meter and rhyme scheme and the like, but I do not know where to start learning about such things.

So I will get into answering that, but here's the thing I really want to do today.

He says a second unrelated question, is there a work of the Western canon that by some bizarre chance you are unfamiliar with I would enjoy hearing your first

approach to a text or some other work I don't know if it would help me but at least it would be

interesting I agree it will definitely be interesting. I hope it will also help you and the first

answer to your general question is there some great work of the Western Canyon you're

unfamiliar with is um yes tons like more than I could name or count

since I'm unfamiliar with them so I don't even know how many there are out there and

let me tell you I promise this is true of anybody that you know no matter how learned

or knowledgeable they may seem to be in a particular subject if you know somebody that just seems to know everything about everything or just be a to be a whiz in mathematics or whatever or if you think of me as somebody that knows a lot about literature, I guarantee that that person, myself included, is constantly running

into things and smacking themselves on the forehead and thinking, gosh, how did I not know that?

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