Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 — intro
1:12 — love your brother, love your sister (intermezzo updates)
3:22 — adding to the dust of the world (intermezzo final thoughts)
17:38 — special guest 💜💜💜
18:48 — there exists another evolution but in this one
20:34 — we're at a bookshop...
22:18 — time escapes you and my camera is broken..
25:50 — poetry and problems
27:02 — outro

“It [composing chess problems] is a beautiful, complex and sterile art related to the ordinary form of the game only insofar as, say, the properties of a sphere are made use of both by a juggler in weaving a new act and by a tennis player in winning a tournament. Most chess players, in fact, amateurs and masters alike, are only mildly interested in these highly specialized, fanciful, stylish riddles, and though appreciative of a catchy problem would be utterly baffled if asked to compose one.” - Nabokov | Speak, Memory

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Books Mentioned:
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney:
goodreads.com/review/show/6797358364
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami:
goodreads.com/book/show/9557.Sputnik_Sweetheart?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=YltCFL0nI1&rank=1

Films Mentioned:
What Happened Was (1994):
letterboxd.com/bulgogiboi/film/what-happened-was

Renee's Book Haul:
On Writing by Stephen King:
goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=RqtwQFLbfG&rank=1
My Year Abroad by Chang Rae Lee:
goodreads.com/book/show/55333981-my-year-abroad?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
The Plague by Albert Camus:
goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong:
goodreads.com/review/show/2871976184
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck:
goodreads.com/book/show/58877223-kairos?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uhohOoxghN&rank=1
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout:
goodreads.com/book/show/1736739.Olive_Kitteridge?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16

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