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Bookwarm Games
by Wesley Schantz
Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life:O, she's warm!If this be magic, let it be an artLawful as eating.- The Winter's TaleYou're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski
Episodes
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (42-46)
We conclude our discussion of the epic romance and turn next time to Roberto Bolano, 2666. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (39-42)
One more meeting should mete out the complete tale of the mighty knight, now restored to his wits and delivering Christendom from its invaders, though some questions remain. Thanks for listening.
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Side Quests FF Tactics: Chapter 3 and opening of 4
The Ivalice Chronicles' secret gospels and peak difficulty spikes, from the loss of Alma to Riovanes Castle and on to the battle with Meliadoul, plus a side quest to meet up with Beowulf, Reis, and Construct 8. Thanks for listening.
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Odd Views and Strange Reflections (Reading The Book of Dust ep 15)
Back at last discussing Pullman, La Belle Sauvage ch 16-17, The Pharmacy and Pilgrims' Tower. Recommended reading: https://www.osneybenefice.org.uk/home-1/binsey Gen 1-2 Conversation with Gabriel Schenk on Pullman's Oxford -...
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After Midnight: Bolano, 2666 (The Part about the Critics, cont.)
We go to Mexico, meet Amalfitano and talk about fate, but maybe not the same Fate as in the Part about Fate. Will we ever hear more about the critics? I think we're good either way. Thanks for listening.
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Kristen Poole on Philip Pullman and the Imagination
I urge you all to read Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination: Seventeenth-Century Literature, Science, and Religion in His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by Kristen Poole, available from Oxford University Press, where else?...
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (35-38)
Back from the moon, we see the flying horseman raise an army. The tension builds as someone might actually fight nobly to save/conquer Paris. Thanks for listening.
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Side Quests: FF Tactics (ch 3 through Library)
Wondering with Orlandeau, Orren, Zalmour, and Wiegraf wherein true power consists. Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight: Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Following on our discussion of the new Odyssey film, we revisit the classic sci-fi reimagining of the story. Thanks for listening.
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Beyond the NES with Syncoplay (Joe Bourrie)
"Rediscovering 8-Bit on the Japanese Famicom," per the subtitle, in this interview with the author of Beyond the NES, Joe Bourrie aka Syncoplay. We discuss what inspired him to dig into the Famicom library (King Kong 2), what he learned (Chrono Trigger wasn't the first "dream team" project), and...
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (31-34)
To the moon in search of Orlando's wits. Thanks for listening!
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After Midnight: Bolano, 2666 (first half of The Part about the Critics)
We talk about first impressions of Bolano's 2666. Long story short: so far, so good! Thanks for listening.
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Side Quests FF Tactics: Chapter 2
Discussing the difficulties and delights of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles through the end of chapter 2: The Manipulated and the Subservient. Thanks for listening!
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After Midnight: Nolan's Odyssey
We're joined by our friend in Finland, Otto Lehto, who is actually up after midnight to talk The Odyssey with us. The discourse, the spectacle, the poem and the film briefly considered. Thanks for listening. Next time, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (28-31)
More fights, more deaths, and more frenzy as we approach the tail end of the romantic epic of European male insecurity. Thanks for listening. The essay on Harington referenced: https://journals.openedition.org/palimpsestes/2925 ; see also Machiavelli's letters
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (24-27)
Squabbling over horses and swords. Watching the Beast on Merlin's big screen. The usual. But also, Zerbino dies?! Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight: Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (to end)
They get got by the Plan, a mixture of Sefirot and Great Beauty. See also: Call Me By Your Name, feat. the music of Sufjan Stevens. We may be reading 2666 next! Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight: Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (through Tiferet)
Approaching the end of the mystery, Pow and the others concoct the Plan. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (through canto 23)
The frenzy descends upon Orlando, bringing us to the close of Reynolds' first volume. Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight: Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (through Gevurah)
Building up to the Plan. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (through canto 18)
Continuing to ruminate on the rollicking Renaissance epic. Thanks for listening.
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Ritual and Reflection in Philip Pullman - Conversation with Jonathan Groves and Buzby (Ep 16)
Discussing His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, from the bench in the Botanic Garden to the Moon Festival at the end of The Rose Field, with the human and daemon behind His Dork Materials. Includes the origin story of that account, theories as to the shift in style between the former and…
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Side Quests: Chrono Trigger Essay Drafts Submitted!
The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Chrono Trigger prompted us to write about the game, and we've submitted our essays at last. Reflections on the drafts, as you might imagine, open up big questions and some ideas for next steps. Thanks for listening!
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (cantos 6-13)
Continuing our reading and reflecting on the magical mayhem of Ariosto's countless characters whose names we can't--or don't want to--recall. Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight School: Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (through Hesed)
We consider the curious case of Foucault's Pendulum, Eco's conspiratorial follow-up to the Name of the Rose. Thanks for listening.
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Serpentine by Philip Pullman (Out of the Ground: Reading the Book of Dust Bonus ep)
Musing on another "beguiling" little book and its companionable relationship to His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. Not the "little green book" we were (possibly?) promised, about Will as a surgeon and all, but a dark green one anyway in which his absence and other absences are palpable....
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Night School: Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (Canto 1-5)
Ariosto's epic-romantic song of knights and magic, spared from the burning of the books in Don Quixote. Thanks for listening.
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After Midnight: Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
AKA Blade Runner. We consider the source material by Philip K Dick. Thanks for listening.
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Time Passes Differently - The Collectors by Philip Pullman (Bonus ep 3)
Another little book in the His Dark Materials/Book of Dust series, not about Lyra but her mother. Sort of. Recommended: Kate Bush, Lyra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5PmGIBfNg About the dedication - https://www.thebookseller.com/news/audible-offers-strike-relief-free-pullman-story-441276...
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Side Quests FF Tactics: Betrayal! (Ch 2 Opening)
Continuing our playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics with a review of events leading up to the battle at Zeirchele Falls. Thanks for listening!
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After Midnight School: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
On summer break, we three night scholars have decided to try reading outside our usual canons and genres, starting with the highly allusive, at times bizarre, but overall quite epic and gripping sci-fi novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Up next: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick...
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A Picnic with Philip Pullman - Conversation with Gaetan Hanen
Gaetan is a longtime denizen of Cittagazze, the premier French-language source for news and gathering-place for readers of Philip Pullman. Among his contributions, the page dedicated to the poetry of The Book of Dust: https://www.cittagazze.com/univers/poesie.php?version=en Thanks for listening!
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Conversation with Liz Walsh on Philip Pullman and Museums (ep 11)
Dr Elizabeth Walsh is a Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge and has written on the curation of Pullman's work and inspirations in museums. His Dark Materials Among the Displays, the Pitt Rivers Museum, December 12, 2022 to December 31, 2023 University of Cambridge Department of...
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Side Quests FF Tactics: Dr Schmid locks in (Ch 1)
We final-fantastically get back into Tactics Ivalice Edition on Switch, recapping most of what makes it fun and at times tedious up through the end of the first chapter. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 8-9)
Concluding our series on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. Next we're weighing Ariosto or Rabelais, and in the meantime, Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Maira Kalman on "Time wastes too fast" - https://archive.nytimes.com/kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/ Thanks for...
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Most Things Have Happened Before - Reading the Book of Dust (Ep 10)
"and we're all still here, by the grace of God" Out of the Ground: Reading The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman On ch 14 Lady With Monkey and ch 15 The Potting Shed Recommended reading...
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Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Philip Pullman against Alan Moore
The indomitable Professor Kozlowski brings out his Notes on Philip Pullman for the History of British Magic lecture series, available on patreon and spotify: https://www.patreon.com/posts/notes-on-phillip-158980054?source=storefront In this preview, we work out ideas about how the dear bete noir...
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Signs in the Water and the Sky - Reading The Book of Dust (ep 9)
On ch 12 and 13 of La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman. Recommended reading: Gen 6-9 Joyce, "Araby" Thanks for listening
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Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 6 and sort of 7)
Slightly touching on 7, but mostly dealing with 6: the bowling green/model fortifications/paradise of Uncle Toby. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (Vol 4-5)
Further hobby-horsical misadventures with our diverting narrator and the cast of his meandering novel. Thanks for listening.
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Side Quests Chrono Trigger: Psychgeist Feedback (ep 11)
A taking stock and looking ahead sort of conversation in the middle of the journey of our life. Thanks for listening.
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Night School: Sterne, Tristram Shandy (vol 2-3)
Of names and noses, fortifications and divagations--and other hobby-horses. Thanks for listening.
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Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Alan Moore, William Blake, and the Occult
As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about the overview of a possible lecture series they've been cooking up on...
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Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: Joseph Frank and the Kierkegaardian Sloek
As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky (again), and then about a little-known…
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Professor Kozlowski Office Hours: The Book of Clarence
As you head towards the stairwell of one of the older buildings on campus, voices reach you from the office around the corner. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but it seems to be two old friends talking about a biography of Dostoevsky, and then about a film called The Book of...
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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Essence of the Game (Ch 1 and beyond)
Slight spoilers: it's teamwork. Also the religious substrate of the zodiac; the transcendence of calculations; the harmonious imbalance of bravery and faith; the rigors of preparation for pivotal battles... Many thanks to Ryan and Pat for joining me for this late-night conversation, an echo of…
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Night School: Tristram Shandy (vol 1)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman--sampled at hazard we find de gustibus, ab ovo, and Alas, poor YORICK! which translated seem to mean "of tastes, from the egg, and [church bell tolling a black page]" as near as I can tell. The opening volume of Sterne's comic modern masterpiece...
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Side Quests FF Tactics (and Clair Obscur: E33): Equip the Skill Set (ep 2)
Professor Kozlowski, fresh off a whirlwind tour through 99 Hours of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, joins us to break down some of the highlights of the early game and frame story of FF Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles....
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A Far-off Feeling - Reading the Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (ep 8)
Discussing La Belle Sauvage Ch 10 Lord Asriel & 11 Environmental Protection/Three LegsRecommended Reading: Milton's hymnal setting of Psalm 136 ("Let us with a gladsom mind"/ "And the Horned moon at night, 'Mid her spangled sisters bright") -...
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Night School: Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Reading and discussing the opening of Part I of Kierkegaard's Either/Or, in which he invites us to listen again to Mozart's Don Giovanni. Also mentioned: Phish, The Line; One Battle After Another; Mario Galaxy... Thanks for listening.
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Bookwarm Games plays on the connection between games, books, and life:O, she's warm!If this be magic, let it be an artLawful as eating.- The Winter's TaleYou're back! Don't bother yourself with talking now, you look too tired. Mothers understand these things. Eat some [favorite food] and scoot up to bed. - EarthBound Deep dives into video games and books, including a trove of audio for the Video Game Academy, co-hosted with Ben Kozlowski. Get involved at https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski
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Wesley Schantz
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