Topics of discussion:

• Rodney Tine + the Office of Unspecified Services;
• The cognitive effects of The Entertainment;
• The Darkness has ghosts;
• Pemulis as a jester;
• Lenz + Green;
• The varying effects of cocaine;
• and Hal is "by far Brianna's favorite person"

See also:

• Monty Python's "The Funniest Joke in the World";
• Clark's wallabees shoes;
• Charles Simic, "Crepuscular";
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner";
• Brooding and Hamlet;
• Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979 film);
• Spicy Burrito Problem (omnipotence problem/paradox; The Paradox of the Stone)

We'll be reading pages 548–565 next time.

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