SEASON 3 EPISODE 7: SOLITUDE
We’re reading Chapters 42-48 through the theme of solitude this week. Lazlo and Sarai get to know each other in his dreams; a few terrible truths about Eril-Fane are revealed. Lazlo offers Sarai the respite of sleep (a sleep within a sleep) and when her nightmares come, they work to destroy them so she can rest. Meanwhile, Thyon is going to try one more time to make his alchemy work. The next morning, Eril-Fane, Azareen and Lazlo brief Suheyla, and Lazlo is distraught to learn that the citizens of Weep also do not know where their many godspawn children went.
This episode was recorded on 29 May 2021.
Show notes
This episode is dedicated to Jen V’s pup Oreo, the best of dogs and the best of buddies.
Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales - read more here.
More here on Julian of Norwich.
Anchorites and anchoresses - more info here.
Jenn D talks about crisis of faith in Contact (more about the film).
Quote from the poem Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman:
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”
“The boy with the bread” is Peeta Mellark and yes, Jenn D does not accept criticism of her choice here. (He’s got bread. I mean, literally. Bread.) Read more!
Jen V would like to take this opportunity to spotlight some truly excellent Hunger Games fan art - often revolving around Peeta and his camouflage habit - by ND Stevenson from their ye olde Tumblr days.
Jen V has a bit of a breakdown inspired by the Darkling from Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone trilogy.
And we mention Mr Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater (Jen V is not ok!)
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and tangata whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.
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Thanks for listening! Next week we’ll be reading Chapters 49-55 through the theme of surival.