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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Get ready for the frightening, the horrifying, the sublime—the (in)famous Cthulhu! It’s time for H.P. Lovecraft! Join us as we read the tome of this scandalous mythos, this perturbing unrealism—The Call of Cthulhu. Lovecraft opens his work about the green, gelatinous, multi-
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Listen as Mary predicts humanity’s post-scientific-disaster scene of us going back to just hanging with Cthulhu, and Cezary’s analogy between Cthulhu and Moses. (What?!) See why Lovecraft ended his most famous work—the first great sci-fi horror—with this:
Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.
Thanks to Christopher Nolen for our music.
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Just an FYI the file play button doesn’t seem to work
Thanks Bob. Working on fixing that.