{"id":408912,"date":"2018-11-22T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/?p=408912"},"modified":"2018-11-21T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:27:49","slug":"two-month-review-6-8-the-book-of-disquiet-sections-274-315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2018\/11\/22\/two-month-review-6-8-the-book-of-disquiet-sections-274-315\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Month Review #6.8: The Book of Disquiet (sections 274-315)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad and Brian fly solo this week, filling in dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2018\/10\/24\/bingo\/\">TMR Bingo squares<\/a>, and trying to come up with &#8220;rules for writers&#8221; based on this particular section of\u00a0<em>The Book of Disquiet<\/em>. It&#8217;s a pretty imprecise set of rules, but whatever, in the words of Pessoa, &#8220;perfection is inhuman.&#8221; They also talk a bit about a &#8220;Mount Rushmore of American Literature,&#8221; whether or not listicles can hit a saturation point in which they&#8217;re all useless, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>As always, you can find the video for this episode on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCicUncIFZZEdqt8pka0U05g?view_as=subscriber\">YouTube channel<\/a>, where we livestream the episodes. Next week&#8217;s podcast will cover sections 316-358 (pages 337-387 in the U.S. edition). Stay tuned for more details about the exact time.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment on this episode\u2014or on the book in general\u2014either on this post, or at the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/216472-two-month-review\">GoodReads Group.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/open_letter\">Open Letter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadwpost\">Chad Post,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianWood_\">Brian Wood<\/a>\u00a0for more thoughts on Pessoa and literature in general, and for information about upcoming guests.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all the Two Month Review posts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/category\/two-month-review\/\">clicking here.<\/a> And be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/two-month-review\/id1253564436\">leave us a review on iTunes.<\/a> It really helps people to discover the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s opening music is &#8220;E \u00c0s Vezes Dou Por Mim&#8221; by contemporary fado star Cristina Branco. 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