Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about two stories by the late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez—“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and “The Handomest Drowned Man in the World.” Our opening music this week is Pep Squad’s “Angel,” from their 1998 album No Doy!
Tag: Epicurus
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #107: Medieval 101
General Introduction – A busy summer – How we spent our summer vacations – Three big announcements The Middle Ages and Antiquity – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Rhetorical constructs – A slow and varied process – How did the Medievals see themselves? The Middle Ages and the Modern World –…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 41: Carpe Diem
General Introduction – We’re all back! – Farmer’s hobbit faux pas Defining the Phenomenon – Robin Williams and the English Romantics – Personal fulfillment – Raging against the machine with Glee – How does one make life extraordinary, anyway? – “Let your freak flag fly”: carpe diem gets crass Hebrews and Greeks: A New Kind…
Loose Thoughts on Epicurus
Every now and then, I come across an author whose work is radically different from what I’ve always thought. Whether the fault of the misunderstanding lies with my teachers or with myself I cannot tell, but it exists nevertheless, and an actual reading of the work shatters my misconceptions. I had this experience, for example,…