Storyological 1.20 - A HIGH SPEED RAINBOW

In which we discuss Catherynne M. Valente's "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild." Along with, among other things, absurdity, rainbows, and the art of fiction.

In which we discuss,

along with, among other things... 

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Rainbows. Yeah, rainbows.
Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland, among other things.
John Gardener, The Art of Fiction (fiction as sustained dream)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The body in fairy tales.
Absurdism. Logically.
reductio ad absurdum
existentialism and absurdism

On myth and threads, "Give the thread to someone else" a video blog by Chris.
That one episode where we talked about "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan, THE DEAD GIRL IN THE ROOM.
That one other episode where we talked about unlearning what you have learned, YOU MUST UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED.