Remains of the Day: Day 2 Afternoon + Day 3 Morning

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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We're back with more discussion about Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. This week's conversation touches on Stevens' inner-turmoil, the complicated social changes at work in the novel, the interesting structural choices Ishiguro makes, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I am David Kern,
0:07.1	and I am joined by two people who also care a lot about the quality of their silver,
0:11.4	Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Tim, Heidi, how's it going? Great. Thinking about my silverware.
0:18.8	Yeah. About your silverware, yeah. I'm actually checking my teeth in the silverware right now.
0:23.4	So you would never, ever put silverware on the table that had a speck of anything.
0:26.8	It's perfect, right?
0:27.5	Oh, my goodness.
0:28.6	Of course.
0:29.6	Yeah, there's standards.
0:31.0	Right.
0:31.3	I'm not a farmer.
0:33.2	Right.
0:34.5	I'm not a farmer.
0:36.8	Is that what you said hi?
0:37.9	Yeah, that's from, well, that is indeed a quote from 30 Rock.
0:43.4	If you remember that episode when Jack Donahy is dressing himself for dinner in a tuxedo.
0:50.4	I'm not a farmer.
0:51.3	And somebody asks him, what are you doing?
0:53.1	And he says, I'm going to dinner. What am I a farmer?
0:56.1	So that's just part of the vernacular of my life. I do think farmers are classy people.
1:04.2	Not to throw farmers under the, under the tractor. I am for, I'm pro farming.
1:10.4	You're pro, but yes. You're pro produce, Just to be clear. Yes. But I do polish my silver. Yeah.
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