Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright, coming to you from my very own desk, which is really thrilling.

I'm back in my flat looking out over the valley of gardens,

and it is really good to be here.

Hi, Carrie, there you are.

Hi, Octavia, there you are.

Oh my God, so nice to be back in this setup.

Normally I record when I'm at my mom's cross-legged on my bed I'm really happy for you too

yeah this is a stable surface for my microphone it's very exciting anyway before we get

into this let's get the business out of the way so if you like you can support us on

patreon by subscribing at patreon.com forward slash lit friction and if you you do this, you will also get access to an

extra minisode each month, which means because we're going to stagger the release dates of

these things, you will be able to get literary friction three weeks out of every four,

which is pretty good if you like us, that is. If not, it's probably hell. But anyway,

you can also have the chance to suggest themes for us to discuss if you become a patron.

So consider it.

I love the idea of someone for some reason not liking us and yet listening to our shows every time they came out.

Some kind of like torture maybe.

I feel like it's likely to be the partners or housemates of people who do like us,

who are like, oh my God, is it those fucking women again?

Please, will you turn this trash off?

Anyway, as Octavia was saying, this month's Patreon minisode will be released in a week's time. And this month,

we will be talking about visual art and echphrasis, very fancy word that I learned to

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