Minisode Twenty: Books as Objects

Literary Friction

Arts

4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Some people treat books like they are sacred objects, others scribble all over them (or even cut them in half). Of course, books are objects, but they're also portals to other universes, new ways of thinking, adventures, romances, and more. The suggestion for this theme was sent to us on Patreon by a patron called Agnes - who asked if we’d talk about how we relate to books as things, as well as vessels for thoughts and experiences. Tune in to find out who is a profligate page folder, who underlines in pen, and who once threw a library book in a puddle of mud (gasp!). If you'd like to suggest themes for us to explore then you can subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/litfriction

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Friction.
0:12.2	I'm Octavia Bright, coming to you actually from my childhood bedroom in West London, which is kind of thrilling.
0:17.7	Hi, Carrie.
0:19.1	Hi, Octavia. I love imagining that. Yeah, it's pretty,
0:21.9	it's pretty fun. I'm actually sitting in front of this wardrobe that from the outside looks
0:26.7	like quite a kind of adult, nice thing, and on the inside has scrawled in Sharpie. I am a pretty
0:33.0	piece of flesh from my teenage years above a mirror. That's so you.
0:38.5	I would have never written that as a teenager.
0:41.5	Oh my God.
0:42.4	I took a Sharpie to all of the furniture in my bedroom to my parents.
0:45.5	Great dismay.
0:46.9	But anyway, before we get into all of these revelations and more, let's get the business
0:51.6	side of things out of the way.
0:53.3	So our Patreon is now live if you'd like
0:55.7	to support our work and get access to an extra minisode each month you can find us at patreon.com
1:02.4	forward slash lit friction patrons can also make suggestions of themes for our minisodes so if you'd
1:08.6	like to hear us talk about something in particular then sign up and we will try our best to build an episode around it. Within reason, guys, though. Yes, within reason. And for this month's Patreon minisode, we will be talking about how literary friction came to be after our patron A Lee suggested it as a theme. Right. So if you want to listen to that, then head over to
1:27.6	Patreon and sign up. I mean, it's probably going to include the story of how our eyes met across a
1:32.1	crowded pub in a small East Anglian town, isn't it? A night I will never forget.
1:38.5	Anyway, how are you, Carrie? How's it going? I'm all right. We are recording this at the beginning
1:44.0	of the bank holiday weekend. A lot of people on my street seem to be doing building work. So you may be hearing the sound of a kind of circular saw in the background. But I'm sorry if that is the case. But I do have some plans to go to London for the day, which I haven't done since September, which seems crazy because I'm only
2:02.0	actually an hour away by train. I'm going to sit in the freezing rain outside and see friends
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Literary Friction, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Literary Friction and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.