Episode 64 – Willow Loves Willow

372 Pages We'll Never Get Back

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 118 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mike and Conor have a pretty straightforward discussion about how Thorn née Willow formerly “the floor” kinda sorta transforms into The Demon / A Dragon / Some Stones / a Liquid Mass of His Own Melted Organs / Some Shards / A Mountain / a Swimmer / a Fish, etc., and in that state puffs … Continue reading "Episode 64 – Willow Loves Willow"

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome, everybody. This is 3752 pages. We'll never get back.
0:19.5	I am Connor Lestoka.
0:20.8	Joining me, as always, is Mike Nelson,
0:22.7	and we are reading Shadow Moon, the continuation of the Willow Saga. I think it qualifies as a saga
0:30.6	at this point in time, right? I mean, we're halfway through this book. He's been...
0:34.6	Is saga synonymous with slog?
0:39.3	Then yes.
0:45.1	Yeah, I mean, you can have a saga where the main character spends the first quarter of the book,
0:50.8	a quarter of the first half of the book in a dungeon, imprisoned there, talking to rocks.
0:59.8	Yeah, having sort of a Samuel Beckett-like discussion with a demon, sort of a waiting for Godot kind of thing going on.
1:01.1	Yeah, sure, that's a saga.
1:05.0	If one of the guys in Godot was rocks.
1:06.2	Yeah.
1:07.5	It's a bunch of rocks.
1:08.3	Yeah.
1:12.4	So I think it's earned its place in the literary canon, and we are just a touch over halfway through.
1:16.7	My God.
1:18.0	Exactly.
1:18.5	It's the only possible response.
1:20.4	It seems like there was not a time before we started reading this book.
1:26.0	Oh, once again, I did it to myself where I was certain that the end of the chapter was
1:32.9	the end of my reading, and it was most certainly not.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.