Storyological 1.02 - DEFEATED BY GREATER THINGS

In which we discuss:

1. "Hat Trick" by Etgar Keret from his collection, The Girl on the Fridge.

2. "The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs from the Feb. 1st, 2016 New Yorker.

http://www.philosophersguild.com/Friedrich-Nietzsche-Little-Thinker.html

Along with, among other things...

• Etgar Keret Interview with Granta

• Pandora's Box

• The Gothic Sublime

• Total Perspective Vortex

• Interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs

• Monty Python

• Jeff Noon

• Triptych

• "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly - into the past."

• Between the World and Me: Empathy is a Privilege

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

• Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Myth of Sisyphus and Camus' essay.

• Shaggy dog stories

• "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

• The Social Meanings of Hats and T-shirts. And more on hats.

Also. Just so you know.

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things" - Rainer Maria Rilke

Happy reading.

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