The Picture of Dorian Gray: Q&A Episode

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

You have questions—we try to answer them. So join David, Heidi, and Tim as they discuss such things as the degree to which Basil deserves blame in Dorian’s fall, whether Wilde wants us to sympathize with his protagonist, whether Lord Henry is a good “villain,” and much more. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey, this is David Kern.
0:04.3	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.7	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:07.4	You were listening to Close Reads, a podcast, The Incurable Reader, which I was thinking about this last time I said it.
0:14.5	Do you guys think that, like, is that a negative or a positive?
0:18.8	I think it's just charming, right?
0:20.9	Okay, okay.
0:21.9	Yeah, it's neither.
0:23.2	Okay.
0:23.5	Well, that was a very, that was a very picture of Dorian Gray answer.
0:28.3	Do you think that's a good thing or a bad thing?
0:30.8	Neither.
0:31.8	It's charming.
0:33.4	And charm.
0:33.7	It just is.
0:34.6	It's aesthetic.
0:37.2	Did you guys also notice that David, Tim, did you notice that David said this is David Kern instead of I am David Kern?
0:44.1	Really mixing it up.
0:45.8	Definitely did that on purpose.
0:47.9	Sometimes you just start to talk and then you open your mouth, you do this enough times and you have a routine.
0:52.6	And yet you open your mouth and it doesn't come out the way you expected, or your brain is programmed.
0:59.0	No, I was...
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