Ep 358 - Circe, by Madeline Miller

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

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Madeline Miller's Circe is a great chaser for Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, and it's an excellent exploration of a mythological character who has often been maligned. Miller's Circe is modern but also instantly recognizable and easy to reconcile with her classical depictions.

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0:00.0	Music
0:23.5	What do they call bacon?
0:26.5	The meat?
0:27.5	Yeah.
0:28.0	Or the action, but mostly the meat.
0:30.0	It's kind of greasy, honestly.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:33.0	It's like toaster waffles.
0:35.0	There are those 15 seconds after it's done
0:38.0	where you can eat it and then after that
0:40.0	it becomes a cold, unappealing mess.
0:43.0	Sure, sure, sure.
0:44.0	I like bacon a lot and there's an arrow on the internet
0:47.0	where you couldn't not like bacon
0:49.0	because all the humor was bacon-based, I guess.
0:54.0	But I don't know.
0:56.0	I don't know.
0:57.0	These days I don't really miss it that much.
0:58.0	Yeah, I don't have it too often.
1:00.0	I like it in my L.T.
1:02.0	I have some Canadian bacon, which is just ham, but that's fine.
1:06.0	That's fine.
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