Bookwarm Games

The Golden Compass series of Bookwarm Games begins! From an overview of the project, we open the discussion with Philip Pullman's relationship to Milton, Blake, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien; set out the dominant themes of the relationship between Lyra and her daemon, and of innocence and experience; consider how these are reflected in the opening of the story and the reader's experience of it. Then to enrich that experience, we start to develop an imaginary video game adaptation! Send in contributions, ideas, questions here or through http://newschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/gamecool-books-golden-compass-by-philip.html Recommended reading/listening: The Golden Compass, Chapter One: The Decanter of Tokay Books I-II of Paradise Lost, with Pullman's Introduction "I have a feeling this all belongs to me," Pullman's biographical sketch Links: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Compass-Dark-Materials-Book/dp/B0000W6SPE https://books.google.com/books?id=Lv-oVbPpc7cC&pg=PT7&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&am

Concluding the series on EarthBound by considering the Apple of Enlightenment, prophecy, and time travel, with readings from Genesis 3, Kant, and Itoi --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Through the Cave of the Past to the final battle with Giygas and Pokey, reading aloud from them, from the game's letters and lyrics, and from Augustine, who knows something about prayer --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

A homecoming reminiscent of Frodo's and Odysseus', famous Saturnisms, and riding meteorites to the past --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

A ping-pong game of thoughts on EarthBound: courage, wisdom, friendship, travel and time-travel. We also touch on FF Tactics, myth and history, and archaeology-love --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

With Ness in Magicant and the Sea of Eden where he beats his Nightmare and hears his own voice, with Jung on dreams and the shadow --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

A talk with my friend Pat about Where the Wild Things Are and rites of passage, the limits of EarthBound and FF8, and what country music has to do with The American Patrick Corporation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

We get the final note and hear the whole melody, with some amateur musicology and some Alcibiades I --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Falling down, distance, abyss, Aristophanes' Frogs and the big Talking Rock --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

From the Library to the Lost Underworld, with glances at Stages on Life's Way, Casey at the Bat, and Sirens of Titan --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Through Deep Darkness and Stonehenge, meeting the one outgoing Tenda, rescuing friends and strangers, loving your enemies, with an excerpt from Conrad's luminous Heart of Darkness --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

The embodiment of the total work of art, and its drawbacks --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Defeating the Kraken, visiting Scaraba, and dancing in front of the Sphinx, we descend voluntarily to recover the Hawk Eye, quoting from Peterson's Maps of Meaning, about which more can be found on The History of Western Thought page on facebook --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Visiting brother Elliot last week made me think I'd better have Mom and Dad on the show! I caught them before dinnertime to discuss Sunday board games, passing the baton, and World Cup predictions. (Please bear with the audio crashing around the midway point.) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

On Spoon and Fork's war, the father of all things (Heraclitus), the Pyramids and Sphinx (Black Athena, Phaedrus, Origins and History of Consciousness), and the Your Sanctuary spots through Magnet Hill and Pink Cloud. But the second half of the recording is all a Museum Day, and can be safely skipped --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Poo's training in Dalaam, Mu in Zen, some Siddhartha and Tao Te Ching --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Summers (with a brief stopover in Winters), Stoics, Epictetus and Boethius, and Magic cake --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Mr Schmid (on anchor and on facebook: search his name and/or The History of Western Thought) and I discuss play and competition, science and magic, and IQ in EarthBound and here at home. Apologies for a couple of audio outages due to psychic attacks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Everdred's haiku and Welcome to Moonside--examining Bogost's Play Anything and Huizinga's Homo Ludens, with a brief detour through postmodernism as characterized in McGilchrist's Master and His Emissary before we're rescued from the Clumsy Robot by the Runaway Five --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support

Venturing across the bridge with Jacques Maritain and Heidegger, Hart Crane and Walt Whitman, amassing the fragments of the fourfold in Fourside. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesley-schantz/support