Minisode Twelve: Escapism In Quarantine

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How are you finding reading at the moment? Are you struggling to drag your eyes away from Twitter or endlessly scrolling news sites? What does escapism really mean? What's working, and what isn't working in these anxious times? We are currently about sixty miles apart from one another, but very pleased to be bringing you Minisode Twelve from our isolation stations. We want to offer a little escapism, but we also want, maybe even need to talk about what's going on right now. So we're going to talk about literature in quarantine, which also means talking about not being able to read at all. We hope you're all doing ok, and we remain at your service through whatever's on the horizon, and as always, thank you for listening. This episode is sponsored by Picador https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador @picadorbooks

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright, coming to you from quarantine in London,
0:12.5	about 60 miles away from my beloved co-host, Ms. Carrie Plet. Hi, Carrie. Hi, Octavia. How are you doing in these weird uncertain times? I'm doing okay.
0:24.1	Like everyone else, I've been very up and down, but I'm feeling, first of all, very grateful for
0:29.3	friends and being able to see and hear them digitally. I'm feeling very grateful for my daily
0:35.1	runs. I went on a run today in Oxford along the river and it was so
0:39.8	glorious and the sun was out and there was mist rising from the river and I almost started crying
0:45.0	from the beauty of it, which I think shows my current mental state. But I'm also just really
0:52.3	grateful that we can keep recording this podcast even in such
0:56.2	uncertain times yeah are you doing I'm okay it's just weird not being able to look at you while
1:00.9	we're doing this I'm like it feels it feels strange but no I'm okay I'm a little on edge and
1:06.9	really grateful for the sunshine and yeah same actually just really glad we're still doing this even though we're all in confinement honestly for the sunshine. And yeah, same actually. Just really glad we're still doing this, even though we're all in confinement.
1:13.8	Honestly, for the sake of my own sanity as much as for anything else.
1:18.1	Because I think little bits of normality feel super important at the moment, don't they?
1:22.5	Yeah, they really do.
1:23.7	And we want to keep bringing you literary friction like we always do.
1:28.9	You might have to bear with us on the sound quality front we are not quite in our closets but it's all pretty makeshift and i know you
1:34.9	have neighbors upstairs octavia i have a very loud church bell across the street
1:39.4	i think you're so much better set up for this quarantine iddle than me in the city, honestly.
1:45.9	Like the thought of a misty run along a waterway sounds incredible.
1:50.3	I go for walks in my local streets and there's just like a lot of very anxious people clutching
1:56.1	shopping bags crossing the road to try and avoid each other.
1:58.9	And for some reason, dog shit everywhere, because people seem to have just thought,
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