Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from

43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back to the show fellow

Scarlet Imprint author Peter Mark Adams. Peter wrote one of my very favorite books

from 2017 The Game of Saturn. He joins us today to talk about his latest title, Mistai,

dancing out the mysteries of Dionysus.

Peter, welcome back.

Gordon, lovely to be back.

Two years since the last time, right?

Very, very brisk years, exactly.

Yes, indeed.

We were just talking before I hit the record button.

I've seen the book and you haven't.

That's right. Well except for photographs and it but it looks

gorgeous. Yes. This has to be commended for the design. She terrifies me. Yeah, she terrifies me every time.

Well I tell you you can't imagine the trouble we had to bring this imagery together, even though the frescoes were renewed, I think, 2015, with the removal of a fine layer using lasers so that they're now back to their you know original

color and detail. Nevertheless the difficulty of getting decent imagery.

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