Minisode Thirty-Seven: Etiquette

Literary Friction

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our theme this month was inspired by a recent story in New York magazine about, as they described it, “How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist in polite society today.” The idea behind this list of 140 rules is that the last three years have completely changed the way that we live and work, and also that everyone seems to have forgotten how to be in society, so we need a new code of conduct. This got us thinking about etiquette, advice more generally, and how it relates to literature. So, we’ll be getting into our thoughts on etiquette lists and advice columns(including our favourite agony aunts), what the novel has to say about manners, plus all the usual recommendations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright and I'm here with my beloved Carrie Plit beaming down the line from Oxford.
0:27.7	Hi Carrie. How are you doing? I'm fine. I'm beaming down the line from Oxford. I don't know. Here's the time when I talk about spring. It's spring.
0:38.7	You're on top of dolls.
0:46.6	Oh, God. How are you? Yeah, I'm good. I'm very excited about spring. I've seen crocuses everywhere,
0:53.5	which is really like beyond everything I could have hoped for right now. And I just got back from Paris where I was for work.
0:55.3	And that was, yeah, wonderful.
1:01.8	You know, Paris just keeps on being Paris. It's the best. I'm going with my parents in a few weeks.
1:06.4	Well, listen, I've got some great restaurant options for you from our friend Lily.
1:10.5	Should we now discuss on the podcast while our listeners listen in?
1:12.0	About the restaurants?
1:12.5	Yeah.
1:13.3	Yeah.
1:14.5	I mean, listen.
1:22.3	I went to an amazing Lebanese restaurant called Eats Time, which is a slightly weird name, but the food was incredible.
1:23.5	Okay.
1:25.1	Maybe our listeners would enjoy that. I think we should cut that.
1:28.9	Okay, well, anyway, before we get into it, let's get business out of the way. If you like,
1:34.1	you can support us on Patreon by subscribing at patreon.com slash lit friction. You will also get
1:39.6	access to an extra minisode each month. There are now 25 waiting for you there and have the chance
1:45.0	to suggest themes. In our latest Patreon minisode, we talked about beginnings in literature,
1:51.0	our favorite openings, the curse of the cliche, and we even played an interactive game,
1:55.9	guys, like, for real, so you should check it out.
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