Ep 393 - The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Mists of Avalon is a seminal work of fantasy fiction that centers the women of Arthurian legend such as Morgan Le Fay. Its author was a terrible person. We talk about the terrible stuff first, and then we try to unpack why the book has entertained and resonated with so many.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
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| 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 | Hey everybody welcome to Overdo it's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
| 0:47.3 | My name is Craig. |
| 0:48.6 | My name is Andrew and it's the end of a decade, right? |
| 0:53.4 | Actually the decade doesn't end until next year. |
| 0:56.2 | Oh my good gracious. |
| 0:57.8 | It's definitely the end of the decade for all. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm not one of those guys because I listen, the decade is arbitrary. |
| 1:05.9 | We decided on an arbitrary unit of time called a day. |
| 1:10.3 | It's not totally arbitrary but we still have to have an extra day every four years just to |
| 1:15.5 | kind of fudge to the numbers a little bit. |
| 1:17.5 | Yes. |
| 1:18.5 | They have enough of those and it's a year and you have enough of those and it's a decade. |
| 1:22.2 | Everybody celebrates every decade going from nine to zero because that just makes sense. |
| 1:29.8 | Everyone does it that way. |
| 1:30.8 | We are celebrating a 10 year unit of time and just because there's no year or zero doesn't |
| 1:35.4 | mean that you need to be a jerk about it. |
| 1:37.4 | Great. |
| 1:38.4 | Well I knew that you had that in you and I just wanted to unlock it for a little. |
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