Ep 235 - Silas Marner, by George Eliot

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

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Craig returns this week for a talk about George Eliot (pen name for Mary Anne Evans) and her novel Silas Marner, which starts out as a bummer but gradually becomes an uplifting little story. We also talk about Craig’s vacation and the Baldwin brothers, among other things.

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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	Craig, you're back from your honeymoon in Amsterdam.
0:45.3	I'm back everyone.
0:48.4	What did you do in Amsterdam?
0:50.8	I've been led to believe that there are some local forms of recreation that are pretty
0:56.4	cool.
0:58.0	I'm not going to overdo this as a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to
1:01.3	read as you may have guessed.
1:02.7	My name is Craig.
1:03.7	My name is Andrew.
1:04.7	And yeah, we're going to talk about Silas Marner this week by George Elliott, which
1:09.6	Andrew read.
1:10.6	But yes, I was not here last week.
1:13.8	Thank you to Susanna for filling in.
1:16.0	I'm out of my mind.
1:18.0	I was disappointed that I think you only said that one.
1:22.6	I only did the one.
1:23.6	She gave me three.
1:24.6	I only did the one.
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