Heavy Things Lightly The Nashville Bomb and Books of Fiction
Welcome back to WAWTAR and episode 28. Today Heers takes a look at the stories we tell and the truths therein. Can fiction be truthful? Why wasn't writing fiction a thing back in the day (pre-1600's)? And what does all of this have to do with the Nashville bomb? Come find out on todays episode of Why Are We Talking About Rabbits.
Links:
- Notes on the History of Fiction
- The New Middle Ages by Eugene Vodolazkin | Articles
- The origin of fiction
- 3Souls: an ancient uptown love triangle
- What is Civilization, Ananda Coomaraswarmy
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"Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?" takes you beyond rhetorical "rabbits" and the shallow approach that the media and most thinkers today take to examine contemporary cultural phenomena. Using theology, history, philosophy and years of travel in Mali, the Republic of Georgia, Haiti, and beyond, John Heers offers a refreshing take to how we got to where we are now. WAWTAR is all about talking about those heavy things… lightly.
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