True Grit, Conclusion

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Join David, Tim, and Angelina for the conclusion of their conversation about Charles Portis' masterpiece, True Grit. Conversation touches on who the book's hero is, whether justice is served in the end, Rooster's tragic ending, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Sorsi Institute Podcast Network.
0:09.2	I am David Kern and I am joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh,
0:13.2	two people who I presume would also not like to fall into snake pits like Indiana Jones.
0:19.3	Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
0:20.4	Would you be okay with falling into a
0:21.6	snake pit, Angelina? No. Nor the bats, nor the spiders, nor the dead body. We really take
0:28.6	your pick. None of those were really awesome. Presumably. The gunfire. Theoretically, I could dodge that.
0:39.3	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Take a step back here.
0:40.3	You're more confident in your ability to dodge gunfire than snakes and spiders.
0:46.3	Okay, I'm just thinking there was a lot of misfiring guns in this book.
0:50.3	I might want to take my chances.
0:52.3	That snake did not miss. That's true.
0:54.5	There were misfiring guns.
0:55.9	It's true.
0:56.2	It's a theme.
0:57.6	And Tim, are you of the Indiana Jones mind here?
1:00.2	What is your, I'm just going to, let's just, let's have some therapy.
1:03.7	What is your number one?
1:05.0	Wow.
1:05.3	Going to our deep seed fears here.
1:07.2	Here we go.
1:07.5	What is your number one, um, living creature based fear? here. Here we go. What is your number one living creature-based fear?
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