This is not just another book chat podcast.

Lifelong reader Cindy Rollins joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks for an ongoing conversation about the skill and art of reading well.

Explore the lost intellectual tradition and discover how to fully enter end to the great works of literature.

Learn what books mean while delighting in the sheer joy of imagination. Each week, we will rescue

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This is the Literary Life Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to the literary life podcast.

I'm Angelina Stanford, and here with me is the mysterious man in the attic.

No, no, let's not go there.

No?

You'll get this joke in just like two minutes when I read my commonplace quotes guy.

I forgot I'm not making a joke in front of a room of literary scholars. They'd be roaring at that. They would. They would. Thank you. They're roaring in spirit. They're roaring in spirit. I don't know. Modern scholars don't really laugh. They don't really have a sense of humor anymore. So maybe I'm just imagining myself back in grad school making that joke and everybody would laugh.

Nonetheless, you'll get that joke and everybody would

laugh. Nonetheless, you'll get that joke in a couple minutes. Welcome back to our podcast

series on Jane Eyre. It's getting good, guys. Today we're going to talk about chapters 20 to 26.

So it's one more chapter to the end of volume two, but, and I guess we could have covered that today, but I, I've tried to keep the reading kind of equal for each week, you know, so we could all keep on track. Not just for you guys, for us, too. This has been a lot of reading. We have a life on top of just as well. Indeed, we do. Indeed, we do in classes to teach. It's been a lot of work to put this series together. But it's been really good. And again, shout out to the Patreon. You guys are just amazing. And it actually takes a lot of the pressure off of me because I'm always tempted to approach the podcast with this feeling of overwhelm. Like, ah, I can't talk about every image. I can't follow every thread. There's so much. And, of course, that's what makes it a classic. There's so much, right? There's so many layers. But seeing you guys follow so many of the layers yourself has been really exciting and encouraging to me. So we're going to keep plotting through the book. Do I plot it anything? We're going to keep

tearing at a breakneck piece through this book with excitement and passion and fire. Following

just a few of the main threads, the fire and the ice, we've been talking about passion. We're

going to add some of that today.

Finding out some of the thematic landmarks, both the tender and the horrifying.

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