Episode 129 || Read It Again, Sam

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Do you really know a book from reading it just once? Annie and Chris weigh in on re-reading and why they do it--or don't. Is there a value in re-reading or is it a waste of time? Are there some books that deserve to be read more than once and others that don't? Also, move over, Schrödinger. We've got our own theoretical cat experiment. "Finding out what happens is the least part of reading." Mentioned this week: + Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth + Little Women by Louisa May Alcott + An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott + Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott + Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott + the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling + the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis + The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien + The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald + The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger + Brave New World by Aldous Huxley + To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee + The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins + Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel + Paradise Lost by John Milton + The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt + The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon + The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe + Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff + Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Check out Shelf Subscriptions, a new monthly book delivery service from The Bookshelf, on our website and sign up for fresh picks from Annie, Chris, and the rest of The Bookshelf staff!

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0:00.0	Um, have you ever given Marge a cucumber?
0:38.3	No. Have you seen cats and cucumbers? Oh, the cat, yeah, where you like, where they're eating and you put the cucumber behind them and then they jump. Yes. Okay, Jordan showed me this and I thought this is going to be some dumb internet thing. I don't want to waste my time with it. And he's like, no, Annie, please watch it. And I watch this video, which I do have to show you if you hadn't seen it. Oh, yeah. Oh, I've seen it. And the whole time I kept thinking, Marge. I want Marge to do this, please. I don't want to scare my, my precious baby bear. I just want you to do it once and video it. And we can put it on the internet.
0:40.3	I just want to do it so bad.
0:42.3	I want to see her jump.
0:43.3	I want to do like a whole March blog.
0:45.3	I mean, obviously I do.
0:47.3	Of course.
0:48.3	But I think she could be an internet famous cat because no cat looks like March.
0:51.3	She's so pretty and I thought what better than to see that beautiful cat jump 10 feet in the air over a cucumber.
0:58.0	Why do you think they're scared of cucumbers?
1:00.0	I read somewhere that they like have this evolutionary instinct that like they think it's a snake.
1:05.0	That's what Jordan wondered.
1:06.0	And they think they're in danger.
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:09.0	But also that seems so specific.
1:10.0	Well and...
1:10.8	And also, like, where has my cat ever seen a snake before? So, okay, let's do an experiment. I'll come over to your house. Okay. And we'll do a cucumber. Mm-hmm. Okay. I have a zucchini in my refrigerator right now. Would that be the same? Yes. Okay. And then, like the next day, I'll come back to your house and we'll do a toy snake.
1:11.4	And we'll see a toy snake.
1:28.4	And we'll see if the response is the same. Okay. Okay. But we need, see, to do this scientifically, we would need three marges.
1:36.9	Right. So we have to clone her, like, in space and time so that we can have a control that doesn't react.
1:43.1	Yes. One that reacts to the cucumber the first time than the snake. One that reacts to the cucumber the first time than the snake.
1:46.2	One that reacts to the snake the first time than the cucumber.
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