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Episode 57 - Well Hung Doors
🕑 Added 2019-10-11 18:25:49 +0000 UTCIt's our third episode discussing Bram Stoker's "Lair of the White Worm". If you like coherent horror stories, we apologize. But as a consolation, may we offer you dozens of sentences with upwards of seven commas in them?
We get the best of what Bram has to offer here: conversations with old men in parlors, absolute gibberish theories passed off as scientific fact, tea with attempted murderers, forest-planks, and of course, in a triumphant return, The Worm of Lambton. We are well aware of the amount of commas in that sentence.
We'll also inspect Adam Salton's past to see how he came to amass such an intricate library of smells, and Mike will attempt to improve on Conor's abysmal Real or Fanfic performance from last episode. For next time, just finish the damn book!
Comments
James Lester
Just got around to listening. It was unreal when Conor said something about the concept of "cyberspace" in the 90s and someone's phone immediately made a cyberspace-ass sounding noise.
Emily Brown
Attention, the plural is definitely "mongooses". Also, "invasion of mongooses" sounds like a great rifftrax movie! https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216789-frogs-evolved-to-be-more-scared-after-mongooses-came-to-their-island/
Emma Schroeder
Wasn't Lilla the one Caswall was after originally?
Mike Truman
I truly didn't expect this book to hurt this badly. And it won't be worth it for the in-jokes, because they're all 50 words long separated by seven commas.
Mark Burger
I'm a bit behind in reading, but I noticed in this stint that I'm reading the unabridged version. I've begun the task of assembling dumb sentences that were either removed or fixed in abridging process. I've pasted them into a Google doc here-- https://bit.ly/2IKeJMG
Amanda Martyn
Anyone else wondering what they could have possibly told Lilla about this? In the abridged version, it just says "she would have to be silent, for a time, to Lilla" but also, she left the house for a few days and didn't come back.
M Williams
There are $24 bes earings on etsy
372 Pages We'll Never Get Back
Ah, probably as in "haven't given away any part of your heart." Or as it relates to to mongooses, "haven't been torn asunder like paper so that your heart splatters its blood on another's ermine collar." --mjn
Kelly Long
Love the debate about the fight with Oolanga and Lady Arabella near the well. Shows how confusing this book is 😂😂
amolove
I'm glad I'm not the only one who looks for the hung-ness of doors.
Moviegique
Sorta weird, but "heart-whole" means NOT in love.
Moviegique
In the unabridged text, FWIW (not much), Adam doesn't come up to Arabella and tap her on the shoulder. *She* spots him—just starts talking to him while he's lurking in the shadows. Which would be kinda creepy except they then have that "Beware of Oolanga, snake lady who can see in the dark" conversation.
Daniel Davis
I read both versions, and a few things that people reading the abridged version missed: - Lady Arabella doesn’t have a gun in the fight with Oolanga because she gave hers to Oolanga while they were outside: “‘Gib me your gun.’ / Unthinkingly, she pulled out the revolver, which was in her breast, and handed it to him ....” - When Adam is reading the (longer version of the) letter from Lady Arabella, it cuts to a future conversation between them about the letter (without explanation of when or why this conversation occurs), then back to reading the letter. - After fleeing from tea with Lady Arabella, rather than going straight back to Doom Tower (which is mentioned as being within walking distance), there’s a couple extra chapters where they ride the carriage to the docks at Liverpool, take a steamship to Queenstown while the White Worm chases them under the water, take a train to Liverpool, then take the carriage to Doom Tower.
Jeremy Rieske
So the cheapest Bes statue on amazon is $44. Was hoping it’d have enough popularity to have small cheap plastic ones. https://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Unique-Ancient-Egyptian-Statue/dp/B07N1VGNQB/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?keywords=aha+statue&qid=1570827420&sr=8-7
Moviegique
There's been very little abridging gone on so far. I'm excited (?) to see how Price crams the last 20% of the book into one chapter.
Brion K
Yay!
