A Meal of Thorns

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Credits:

• Guest: Jared Pechaček
• Title: Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Jared’s book, The West Passage
• By-the-Bywater, a podcast about Tolkien
• Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche
• Caroline Hagood’s Death And Other Speculative Fictions
• Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros
• The Inklings
• Barbara Remington, artist and illustrator. Hard to find good scans of her works; here’s a page with the Eddison covers.
• Anna Vaninskaya’s Fantasies of Time and Death
• Lord Dunsany
• Griemas Squares
• C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra, we did an episode on that!
• Eddison’s A Fish Dinner in Memison
• C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
• Sappho
• John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi & The White Devil
• Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman”
• Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
• John Crowley’s Aegypt
• Baruch Spinoza
• Pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus
• Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “The Will to Power”
• Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven”
• William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
• Hope Mirlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist
• Michael Swanwick’s Stations of the Tide
• Jared's Bluesky, Instagram, Tumblr