Ep 002 - Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2013
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Florentino Ariza, the ostensible protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez' Love in the Time of Cholera, has had 622 distinct sexual partners in the 51 years, nine months, and four days that he has waited for Fermina Daza, his true love. We talk about each and every one of them in this week's episode.
Well, no, not really. But we do have a long and sort of disjointed conversation about cholera, geography, aging, and the nature of love, which befits the disjointed nature of the story itself.
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| 0:00.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
| 0:05.0 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome, welcome to Overdo. |
| 0:37.0 | It is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:40.0 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, I am Andrew. |
| 0:43.0 | And each week one of us pulls a book or a play or something from a bookshelf, |
| 0:48.0 | off our bookshelf. |
| 0:51.0 | Usually a book, though. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. Well, it's a book of some kind. |
| 0:54.0 | It's in book four. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, we're not, I mean, there's nothing wrong with Kindles, |
| 0:58.0 | but we're trying to go through books first, I guess. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know. We'll figure it out. |
| 1:03.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:04.0 | But they're all books from our backlog. |
| 1:06.0 | We're trying to work through classic literature, |
| 1:08.0 | obscure novels, murder mysteries, whatever we have been meaning to read |
| 1:13.0 | because maybe we bought it or someone gave it to us once. |
| 1:18.0 | So. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. |
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