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Folly. Persist.

59 min • 7 maj 2025

Satan comes forward a sinkapace.

Topics in this episode include Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister, Goethe’s thoughts on Hamlet translated through Thomas Lyster, Elizabethan dances, Sir Toby Belch, Monsieur de la Palice and a hilarious French pun, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Stephen’s six brave medicals, Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan, Cranly, Medical Dick and Medical Davy, betrayal, W.B.’s shining seven, the significance of the number seven, Malacoda’s trumpet, Dante, extended Wicklow imagery, Satanic imagery in the works of Joyce, Stephen’s Luciferian impulses, Diablous in Musica, and Stephen’s ultimate rejection of Satan despite his declaration of “Non serviam.”