Persuasion: Finis
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Finally, we can speak more freely about all of Persuasion, so this week David, Heidi, and Sean are discussing Wentworth’s love letter, Ann’s assessment of her own choices, the melancholy nature of this book, the differences between Eliot and Wentworth, the pantheon of Austen men, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:04.0 | Heidi White. |
| 0:05.9 | Sean Johnson. |
| 0:08.4 | You decided you weren't going to use the I'm. |
| 0:11.8 | I kind of disappeared into my throat when I was talking. |
| 0:16.2 | Okay, let's do it again. Let's do it again. |
| 0:17.6 | Okay, let's talk about. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Sean Johnson. It's felt a little more normal. Let's do it again. Okay, let's... Hey, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. I'm Sean Johnson. |
| 0:23.0 | It's felt a little more normal. |
| 0:24.0 | Anyway, this is close reads. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a podcast for the incurable reader on which we are discussing Jane Austen's novel |
| 0:30.0 | Persuasion. |
| 0:31.5 | This is the episode in which we talk about the whole book, because we've read the whole thing. We've come to the end. So we could talk about it in the big picture, full context, however you want to phrase it. |
| 0:42.1 | Next week, that means it's time for our Q&A episode. So you can leave a question. Well, you know what? |
| 0:50.3 | I was going to say you can leave your questions in the thread for this episode on Substack, |
| 0:53.8 | but I think what I'll do is I'll test out creating an actual thread on Substack |
| 0:58.7 | where people can post their questions. So we have a space dedicated to the Q&A episode. |
| 1:04.0 | We'll try that. Substack's threading thing is pretty handy anyway. So if you go to |
| 1:09.1 | closereads.substack.com find that thread. It will also get emailed out. So if you go to closereads.substack.com, find that thread. It will also |
| 1:13.8 | get emailed out. So if you're subscribed, you should have quick and easy access to that. |
| 1:17.9 | But if you're not subscribed, you can still access that. Whether you're subscribed for free or |
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