Episode 30 - Brit & Squid
What do whales eat? Brit and squid, of course.
Whales stranding in Northumberland after seeing naked Geordies, brit, seafaring Brits, baleen whales, Melville doing a Melville, dog-fish, Welsh animal names, the greatest long sentence in the book, fact-checking Melville, vengeful God, the carrot and stick of faith, Squid the cat (RIP), spoiler alert, a vast pulpy mass, the sociology of knowledge, folk-science versus science-science, Italo Calvino, semiotics, Norwegians in favour of Krakens and mermaids, The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Anglophiles, phrenology, teuthology, Archie the squid…
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