The Mikes have a confession to make: we read and have thinkings about another Thomas Disch novel. We marvel and cringe at the what goes underneath those cassocks.
It's Cocktail Time!
No one Drinks the Spanish Inquisition
In a shaker with ice, mix
- 1/2 shot Cointreau
- 1/2 shot calvados
Pour into coupe glass (for up) or rocks glass (for on the rocks). Fill glass with cava and top with a shake or two of bay leaf bitters.
Chin Chin!
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Another great episode.
I've come across other Disch works that would also be called "Sardonic." "Attack of the Stupid Dinosaurs" comes to mind.
Always been curious about "The Genocides," where aliens come and start farming giant plants. Humans are the vermin scuttling amid the crops, who must be eradicated like aphids. Also "Fun with Your New Head."
If you come across the short story, "Descending" -- in which a distracted shopper at a NY department store takes the down escalators while absorbed in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," only to realize he's fifty pages in and untold stories underground -- give it a read.
Would like to renew my request that you read a passage and comment on prose style.
Hope you someday do Ligotti's masterpiece, "My Work is Not Yet Done." Not sure if an affordable edition is out there, though.
Keep going, you're still doing wonderfully entertaining podcasts.
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