The End of the Affair: Part One

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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And so it was time to begin a new book . . . Join David, Tim, and Heidi as they dive into the world of Graham Green's twentieth classic, The End of the Affair. They chat about the likability of the narrator, the mystery of Sarah Miles, the technical skill of the author, and the fascination of those first few lines. And much more, of course.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Streets Podcast Network. I'm David Kern.
0:06.4	I'm back in my car. The kids are at home, so I'm back in my car. And I'm here with my old friends,
0:12.2	Tim McIntosh, Heidi White. Hi, Tim. How's it going? David's going terrifically.
0:17.3	Yeah. David, I want to ask a question. Yeah.
0:22.3	So I have a theory.
0:23.3	It's not even really a theory.
0:27.2	It's more of an empirical test.
0:37.7	You can tell who a person is by looking at the detritus that accumulates in their car when they're not driving it.
0:40.6	What's a trit.
0:42.7	The flotsam and jetsam.
0:44.8	That's even better.
0:47.3	The flotsam and jetsam that accumulates in your car.
0:48.2	The sea phone? What's accumulating in your car?
0:50.4	I'm going to predict first.
0:52.3	I'm going to predict, first, I'm going to predict kids stuff like
0:57.7	some socks that one of the youngsters
1:01.7	was like, these are hot, I'm taking them off. And they're like, they're probably
1:05.7	underneath the seat. This is a kind of standard.
1:09.3	Check. Check. That is through. Looking in the backseat, there is, yeah, there is a kind of standard. Check. Check. That is true.
1:11.5	Looking in the backseat.
1:15.4	There is, yeah, there's a couple socks.
1:29.2	A sweater, a child sweater, and a dress-up chef's outfit in my car that belonged to the kids. Yes, so far you are one for one. What else do you?
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