The Silence of the Lambs Podcast

Kicking off Season Two of the Hardcore Literature Podcast with a good one: Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs.

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The Silence of the Lambs Podcast: Hardcore Literature S2 E1

We’re talking about:

0:34: “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Amarone.”
2:08 – The myth of Prometheus
2:41 – The myth of Sisyphus
3:25 – Artistic sensibilities and stealing fire from the gods
3:55 – Humans are partway between god and animal
4:50 – The four humours theory (Hippocrates)
5:48 – Why does Dr. Lecter dine on the census taker’s liver?
6:14 – A schooling in humanity at its most beastly
6:36 – The metaphor of the dividing glass
7:06 – The significance of names
7:31 – The hero’s journey
8:23 – The devil inside us, our darkest impulses, educates us
8:31 – Jung’s shadow
9:31 – On liver donation
9:51 – On hunting and eating liver
11:00 – Who does the fire inside you belong to?
11:30 – On regulating anger and aggression
12:46 – Male anger is an easy guise for more difficult emotions, like sadness
13:05 – Heaven and hell are states of mind
13:36 – Why we need to descend to hell
14:05 – We are Hannibal Lecter, and we are Clarice Starling
14:30 – Are we strong enough to point our high-powered perception at ourselves?
15:49 – You are the monster, and you are the person that needs the monster’s help
16:05: How to bargain with the monster
16:15: To eradicate darkness, we must befriend darkness
16:45: On Thomas Harris, the writer of The Silence of the Lambs

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