The Tower of Silence
Blooms & Barnacles
English - April 26, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsBooks Arts Education Courses james joyce ulysses dublin literature irish literature modernism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Break out the Tantalus glasses - we’re finally getting out of the Underworld!
Topics in our final episode covering “Hades” include paying the ferryman, turning a suit, rats, Robert Emmet, the speech from the dock, toxic nostalgia, cremation, the Catholic Church’s position on cremation, quicklime, Zoroastrianism, the Parsi Tower of Silence, the unexpected consequences of a reduced vulture population, the gentleness of seadeath, leaving the Underworld, Mrs. Sinico and “A Painful Case”, Leopold Bloom’s affirmation of life, John Henry Menton, whether JHM ever had a shot with Molly, Mat Dillon’s parties, Tantalus, Tantalus glasses, Ajax revisited, and our closing thoughts on “Hades”.
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