Episode 10: Wandering Rocks
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This episode presents readers with nineteen seemingly random vignettes around Dublin featuring a mass of characters connected only slightly by a promenading Jesuit priest and a Viceroy on parade. We talk about urban atomization, truth and the imagination, and sadistic humor with Matthew O’Leary, a philosophy graduate from Cork, Ireland, Scarlett Baron, associate professor in the English Department at University College, London, and Sergio Salvia Coelho, a theater critic from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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