Ep 505 - Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This contemporary Victorian story is chockablock with twists and turns, backstabs and broadsides, as well as Dickensian pornfiends. It also features a steamy lesbian romance between two women desperate to escape their own circumstances. We dive into what makes Fingersmith memorable, as well as where its structure overstays its welcome.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Greg, we've all heard of finger smits, but have you ever been a web smith? |
| 0:12.3 | Once upon a time, maybe. |
| 0:14.2 | But I think my skills are a little rusty. |
| 0:17.6 | Well, if you need help putting together a website, you should consult the web smiths |
| 0:21.5 | over at Squarespace. |
| 0:22.8 | Squarespace is a website that helps to make websites. |
| 0:25.8 | They will allow you to claim a domain, sell stuff online, market your brand, and see |
| 0:29.8 | analytics so you can see stuff about the people who are seeing your stuff. |
| 0:34.7 | Whoa. |
| 0:36.0 | People can look at you and you can look right back at them with Squarespace's analytics. |
| 0:40.3 | They've got world-class engineering, beautiful templates, powerful e-commerce tools, and |
| 0:45.8 | it's DIY in nature. |
| 0:47.9 | They've got templates you can start with, but you can move stuff around however you |
| 0:51.2 | want it. |
| 0:52.2 | I love it. |
| 0:53.2 | Just the way you like it. |
| 0:54.2 | I like to do it myself. |
| 0:55.2 | That's good. |
| 0:56.6 | And if you mess something up while you're doing it yourself, they've got 24 or 7 award-winning |
| 1:00.4 | customer support to help you when things go wrong. |
| 1:04.1 | So if you would like to smith a website, go to squarespace.com slash overdue for a free |
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