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1-800-The Gadfly · 1-800-1800

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  It's a book that I had come across while doing research for my
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  master's thesis
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  SPEAKER_01: about an architect who was working in the late 19th,
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  SPEAKER_01: early 20th century,
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  who believed that you could develop a system of ornament that
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  allowed people to
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  SPEAKER_01: visualize and thus project themselves into the fourth dimension.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you might be thinking, what does that have to do with this book?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking about how yesterday someone told me that
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  at the sphere they offer a 5d experience in vegas i'm not going
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  to the sphere with
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  SPEAKER_01: you you have to stop bringing it up um and so this book basically the the
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  Ethel Lillian Voynich's sister was married to a guy who was
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  inspirational to this other guy.
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  It was just like a very tangential point to the research that I
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  was doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it was such a great story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've seen it as a footnote in so many other things.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just the whole time was thinking,
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  I have to read this book that everybody keeps like mentioning
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  and passing.
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  I feel like there's other books like that that come up a lot in
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  certain places.
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  SPEAKER_00: My latest like this is Trilby.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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  Like which just keeps coming up and I'm like I need to read it
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  and it's honestly
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  SPEAKER_00: hard to find so we should probably publish our own version.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay that's next.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way you heard it here first.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well maybe that's our first classic.
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  Anyway so but the so this the story of the book is it's
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  historical fiction about
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  SPEAKER_01: the Italian revolution in the 1840s and about this kind of
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  twisted love triangle between the godfly who's like a humorist
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  and uh his we're
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  spoiling it i think it's like as we said yesterday when we were
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  discussing this
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  book with our new book club this book is nearly impossible to
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  discuss without
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  spoiling so we'll do our best not to reveal everything maybe
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  but it's kind of
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  impossible to do that i think like this is the episode like
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  read the book and then
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  SPEAKER_00: listen to this episode okay