Ep 158 - Beloved, by Toni Morrison

Overdue

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Widely regarded as one of the best, and most important books, of the last half-century, Toni Morrison's Beloved is an unflinching examination of how the past can enslave just as painfully as a yoke or a whip can - and how our inability to wrestle with the past begets wrongdoing for generations to come.

Listen in as we discuss full-contact sports, the myth of the well-meaning slave-owner, hauntings, and Craig's quest to find #achairformyandrew.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	I'm going to talk about chairs.
0:40.0	You don't want to talk about chairs.
0:42.0	My chair broke this week.
0:44.8	First it started to break and then it broke.
0:47.0	That's how things go.
0:49.7	First they're tenuous and then they cease to work.
0:52.0	The situation just deteriorated so quickly.
0:54.8	I thought I'd have more time to say goodbye and instead, whatever it is in this chair that
1:00.8	makes it like tilt has become like a buck and bronco sort of mechanism thing.
1:09.9	Welcome to Overdoot.
1:10.9	This is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
1:12.8	My name is Craig.
1:13.8	My name is Andrew.
1:14.8	And we are Morning Andrew's office chair this week.
1:17.8	Rest in peace for my chair.
1:20.0	Morning pieces in the hallway where the trash gets taken out of.
1:24.0	Now I'm back here.
1:26.0	Now I'm up here.
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