The Great Passion: Chapters 13-18

Close Reads Podcast

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Welcome back to our ongoing conversation about James Runcie’s The Great Passion. In this episode we discuss the book’s ongoing contemplation about the way platitude’s rarely can solve the problem of real grief; how it explores spiritual questions; the complicated nature of Catharina’s relationship with Stefan; and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm David Kern.
0:04.1	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.4	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:06.8	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing James Runcys the Great Passion.
0:14.1	In particular, we are discussing chapters 13 through 18 of the Great Passion in which hearts are, hearts are broken.
0:25.6	Paralice. They are fragile, vulnerable. That's right. More people die.
0:32.9	So are heads, apparently. Yeah. And including including revile execution.
0:39.6	And that's how the end of resiliency really is
0:40.7	what this section is about
0:41.7	as as
0:42.7	Stefan.
0:43.6	Rivalry and resilience.
0:46.0	Exactly.
0:46.7	Rivalry and resilience.
0:47.8	Yeah.
0:48.6	The Bach story.
0:50.5	I love it.
0:52.2	You guys,
0:53.0	we were just talking
0:53.6	about how apparently Bach he died because someone botched a operation on his eyeballs.
1:01.6	Something to that effect.
1:03.2	I think if it had been during that time, I might have just been like, it's fine.
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