The Remains of the Day, Prologue and Day 1

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they kick off discussion of a new book: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. Topics of conversation include the expectations of a road novel, the book's treatment of dignity, why professionalism is so important to Stevens, the questions of culture the book raises, key scenes, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.
0:06.8	I am David Kern and I am joined by two people who know absolutely everything there is to know
0:12.0	about falconing and newt mating Tim McIntosh and Heidi White.
0:16.4	Tim, Heidi, welcome back to the show.
0:18.6	I got that, right?
0:20.2	You know a lot of us. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Newt mating and falconing. Heidi, welcome back to the show. I got that, right? Right? Of course.
0:21.4	Yeah.
0:21.9	Yeah.
0:23.7	Noot mating and falconing.
0:25.0	I figured you guys are.
0:25.9	Mood or newt?
0:27.8	Did that just get there?
0:29.3	No comment.
0:33.0	We're going to move on.
0:33.8	We're going to move on.
0:34.5	Right.
0:34.6	Time to move on.
0:35.7	Not sure who's listening, so we don't want to have to give a disclaimer at the beginning
0:38.6	of the episode. Hey, we are here to talk about the remains of the day.
0:42.1	Cause Ishiguro's novel Remains of the Day.
0:45.3	Had either of you read an Ishiguro novel before?
0:48.5	Never.
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