On this episode, we talk writing routines, positive and negative nodes of discourse, imaginary worlds, psychoarchaeology, utilizing A Voyage to the Moon to map the psyche of thinkers of the path, and perhaps to rewrite our own internal maps. Kris tasks David with developing a play about Darwin's theory of evolution...to be put on by a sixth-grade class.


Authors who set out visions of the Moon and other worlds pre-modernity:


Plutarch


Cicero


Lucian


Wilkins


Godwin


Defoe


de Bergerac


Dante


Chaucer


Swedenborg


Kepler’s Dream


Other notes:


Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday


Brill Building


A Voyage to the Moony by Cyrano de Bergerac