Phi Fic means Philosophical Fiction. Each episode, we have a candid dicussion on a heady work of of fiction, full of SPOILERS. Join host Nathan Hanks and readers Cezary Baraniecki, Daniel St. Pierre, Laura Davis, and Mary Claire, plus the occasional guest.
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We talk about the novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy with Nathan Hanks, Jordan Payne, and special guest Dylan Casey from the Partially Examined Life Podcast. This origin/zero-episode is taken from an older (2013) recording of the Philosophical Fiction group, before our current group of readers got together.
Worth Mentioning: No Country for Old Men/The Crossing/Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, and Paradise Lost by John Milton, PEL ep. #63: No Country for Old Men.
Thanks to Christopher Nolen for music.
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Daniel says
December 15, 2016 at 11:12 pmThey were simply afraid of the judge.
Doesn’t matter if you have an advantage on a man… Even a significant one… If you are afraid enough.. If you don’t feel powerful enough, you will not capitalize on it…
Kai Kosog says
May 5, 2017 at 12:34 pmIt seems like the judge may represent an almost Schopenhauerian ”strife” that is universal and atemporal.
WAT says
November 26, 2018 at 1:05 amThough the ending is uncertain, to me it seems a finish with a tortured whimper at the whim of self contained Chaos.