Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-07-13
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 139
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Andrew Sage discussed Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Private Life of the Queen by One of Her Majesty's Servants, Doublets: A Word-Puzzle. By Lewis Carroll. Third Edition by Lewis Carroll, The Exeter Book by Israel Gollancz and others, and Thinking Inside the Box by Adrienne Raphel. Also mentioned: Destroying Yemen by Isa Blumi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer is a renowned exploration of botany, Indigenous wisdom, and humanity's reciprocal relationship with the natural world.
Discussed“According to Hodonosini mythology as recounted by Robin Wal Kimmera in Braden Sweetgrass, the mother goddess Skywoman came to the land as an immigrant from the heavens but became indigenous by listening to the land”
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The Private Life of the Queen
Discussed“from a passage from the private life of the queen by quote one of her majesty's servants written in 1897 quote her majesty queen Victoria takes delight in a clever riddle or reebus”
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Doublets: A Word-Puzzle. By Lewis Carroll. Third Edition
Discussed“In Charles Dawson's or Lewis Carol's 1880 book, Dublets, a word puzzle, there are examples of this where he says to quote drive pig into sty raise four to five, make wheat into bread.”
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The Exeter Book
Discussed“The exit book is an 11th century old English manuscript and it's the largest and perhaps oldest known manuscript of old English literature containing about a sixth of all the old English poetry that has survived until today.”
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Thinking Inside the Box
Discussed“Author Adrienne Rafell, who wrote the book Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords of the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them, wrote in the Paris Review in 2020, quote, "If you're a piece of artificial intelligence software, you might have a hard time solving a cross word.”
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Destroying Yemen
Discussed“Um there's a very good book about this. Uh it's it's by uh Issa Bloommy called destroying Yemen which is about like a lot of the factors that start the war in Yemen”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“In The Hobbit, our hero Bilbo Baggins best Gollum in a riddle contest by asking him the unknowable, "What's in my pocket?"”
“But yeah, there's just many sex that stem all from the one religious book of the Quran and then just [ __ ] happens.”