Ep 653 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce

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

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate Bloomsday (however inadvertently), we decided to make our first foray in the work of James Joyce. His debut novel riffs on themes and characters that feature prominently in the rest of his canon, so join us for a discussion of modernist novel structure, semi-autobiographical lyricism, and what you should run off to smell if you find yourself crying in front of your family.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to over do it's a podcast about the books you've been
0:47.7	meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Craig did you ever as a as a child or Craig. taken, preferably portraits where like your aunt or somebody made you
1:06.0	all wear the same clothes.
1:08.0	I don't think, I can't think of a, we all matchy match match I think if we ever did one it was probably all mixed
1:16.0	mitch match but I don't yeah I I know exactly where in the King of Prussian
1:21.8	all that happened to people I can picture it with my
1:25.3	mind's eyes. There exists a life touch somewhere above a mantle a picture of me and a bunch of
1:32.4	various family members in like light washed blue jeans and a white shirt.
1:39.2	Yeah, that was the outfit that we picked.
1:42.0	That's good.
1:43.0	All the crisp and clean.
1:45.0	Standing in front of one of those, you know, the swarily, colorful backgrounds.
1:49.0	What were those, man? They still use them.
1:51.0	I know, it's great.
1:52.0	Our daycare pushed them apparent well
1:54.4	Simon didn't actually count and it's the last daycare picture day. He
1:58.2	freaked out too much and they they gave us a coupon to go get it on our own. Nice, okay, I bet you totally take advantage of that.
2:04.9	But those backgrounds are like the perfect combination
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