Ep 122 - To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is a modernist classic. Rich in lyrical prose and unrelenting streams of conciousness, Lighthouse set a standard for peering into characters' heads and hearts and relaying the contents back to the reader. It also closely mirrors portions of Woolf's life - particularly her summers in St. Ives and the devastating loss of her mother at a young age. Discussion points this week include bag shoes, second helpings of soup, and the difficulties of conveying via podcast this book's lasting appeal.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.2	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.8	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Do you have strong feelings about America? You want to talk about America?
0:37.6	Happy Birthday, America. Happy Birthday to America! It's July 5th.
0:48.3	The day after America's birthday, America is just, it's 155 in the afternoon.
0:53.2	America is just now rolling out of bed, hungover.
0:57.6	Reaching for that leftover dominoes. Taking a little hair of the dog, the dominoes dog.
1:04.1	The hairy domino dog. Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books
1:09.0	that you have been meaning to read. My name is Craig.
1:11.2	My name is Andrew. Andrew, would you say that you are feeling like an American today and by an
1:17.1	American I mean, hungover? I would not say that. Cool. What's your favorite type of
1:25.0	fireworks, Andrew? My favorite type of fireworks is the one that goes off, but then it goes up a
1:32.7	little more and then goes off again. Those are nice. Those are good. Also, the little white ones
1:38.5	that aren't very big, but they make a big noise. I love the ones that make a big noise.
1:43.4	The ones that are like a giant just punched you in the chest.
1:50.6	What's your favorite kind of fireworks? I think that's one of them. I also really like the ones
1:55.6	where they spread out and then all of the individual pieces like spread again.
2:02.2	Yeah, those are good. I like those. We saw ones yesterday that I never seen before,
2:07.2	where they spread out and they fell really slow and really long. They look like jellyfish
2:13.9	that were just like syncing out of the sky. I think I've seen those. Yeah, you've got to keep
2:17.5	up with the advancements and fireworks technology. You're just going to be not going to know what
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