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Transcendentalism!!! Thanks to the awesome Patreon supporter who nominated this episode! Support the show and gain access to over three dozen bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon. Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your life? Join us on The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast! Love Star Trek? Come find us on the Lower Decks! Neil Gaiman fan? Love comics? Join us on Hanging Out With the Dream King: A Neil Gaiman Podcast. Check out Glenn's medieval history podcast Agnus! Find out how you can commission a special bonus episode here. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum. Follow Claytemple Media on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up for our newsletter. Follow Glenn on Facebook and Twitter. Check out Glenn's weird fiction story "Goodbye to All That" on the Tales to Terrify Podcast. Next time: A Night in Malneant by Clark Ashton Smith. Music: http://www.purple-planet.com
It's a Batman prequel story! Thanks to the awesome Patreon supporter who nominated this episode! Support the show and gain access to over three dozen bonus episodes by becoming a patron on Patreon. Rate and review the show to help us reach more readers and listeners. Not enough science-fiction and fantasy in your life? Join us on The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast! Love Star Trek? Come find us on the Lower Decks! Neil Gaiman fan? Love comics? Join us on Hanging Out With the Dream King: A Neil Gaiman Podcast. Check out Glenn's medieval history podcast Agnus! Find out how you can commission a special bonus episode here. Join the conversation on the Claytemple Forum. Follow Claytemple Media on Facebook and Twitter, and sign up for our newsletter. Follow Glenn on Facebook and Twitter. Check out Glenn's weird fiction story "Goodbye to All That" on the Tales to Terrify Podcast. Next time: A discussion episode on Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Music: http://www.purple-planet.com
Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini is a scientist who grows poisonous plants in his garden...Uitgegeven door SAGA EgmontSpreker(s): B. J. Harrison
Under no circumstances should you stop and smell the flowers. We learned this lesson and had many more plant-based epiphanies chatting about Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story, “Rappaccini's Daughter.” This tale is set in a sinister garden in Padua, Italy, and we find out some similarly sinister facts about Megan's loving embrace of shrubs. We chat about science and medicine in the olden days, the gothic, monks who probably should have just peed their pants, scary Catholics, and (most importantly) incest. We meet a real hall-of-fame ding dong, Giovanni, and discuss his ill-fated courtship with Buca di Beppo's daughter, a living breathing Georgia O'Keeffe painting. This blooming maiden has both a morose and monomaniacal dad and a secret, and we dive deep into both. We conclude with a game that contains shocking Hamburger Helper-related revelations. After its initial publication, "Rappaccini's Daughter" was included in Hawthorne's short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). After Melville read it he wrote his famous 1850 review "Hawthorne and His Mosses" and we highly recommend you check that out too--but please be sure to budget some time for a cold shower afterward. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @betterreadpod, and email us nice things at betterreadpodcast@gmail.com. Find Tristan on Twitter @tjschweiger, Katie @katiekrywo, and Megan @tuslersaurus.
In part 3 of our 4 part series we explore "Rappaccini's Daughter," one of Hawthorne's most famous short stories.Whether we understand it or not, our American culture is heavily shaped by Science Fiction. It is arguably the closest we get to a literary genre. It's power is so immense that our views of things like the lone-billionaire scientist (think Musk) and the doting old intellectual (think Bernie) still follow us around today. When we look to scientists to solve all of our ecological, biological, earthly "problems" we are acknowledging the impact of sci-fi. Science today resembles a religion of old with its leaders and secretive language and gatekeepers.This of course is most assuredly NOT science. It is, instead, the by-product of the evolution of science in a literary artform.In this four part series we are exploring the original conception of this genre. How it was envisioned and some of the original solutions to this primary character: the scientist. What can a scientist know? When should we take scientists at their word? Should we relegate the entire realm of knowledge to the specialists of today?Explore these ideas as well as the personal moral values in Hawthorne's romantic sci-fi stories in part 3 of our 4 part series.
Julie can't find all her pink ribbons. Scott's whirling, whirling, whirling in a circle. They've got a bad feeling about this. In Episode 194, two stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's Daughter".Download or listen via this link: |Episode #194| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE|
In which the whole truth about Beatrice ... and about Giovanni ... is discovered.Episode 233, Rappaccini's Daughter, part II(download or listen via this link)Book InformationStory rating: PG for poisonous flowers, love, and scholarly antagonismThis story is in the public domain.Halloween ListeningThe LotteryNight DriveBeautiful PeopleThe Beckoning Fair One (part two, part three)The UninvitedThe Unforeseen
In which a young man from Padua spies a beautiful maiden in her garden. But is there something deadly there too?Episode 232, Rappaccini's Daughter, part I(download or listen via this link)Book InformationStory rating: PG for poisonous flowers, love, and scholarly antagonismThis story is in the public domain.
Chronos has been found again, this time by a biology student who needs to set his priorities straight in his old age. Chronos summons his fire to tell the story of Rapacini's Daughter, told by the Weird Circle cast in 1952. Join Chronos on the beach of memories and futures as he weaves his story and lessons for all of you fright fiends. Catch all of his episodes here or on our Bandcamp page.
Can a college student find love with the girl next door? What if she's a bit ... untouchable? Loosely inspired by "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne Cover Art by Brett Coulstock Music by Kostas Vomvalos