The Napping Wizard Sessions - Jimmy Raskin: Slapstick Enlightenment

Brooklyn Free Speech Radio · May 15, 2019 · 45m

Episode 3: Jimmy Raskin puts the cliché under the microscope through a process he calls Slapstick Enlightenment.

Always obsessed with profound moments of failure, Jimmy discusses his love of two quotes by seminal figures of his

work for the past several decades, Arthur Rimbaud: "If brass wakes as a bugle, it's not its fault," and Frederick

Nietzsche, the subtitle to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "A Book for All and None." Putting these up against a profound

moment of failure of his own in a mispronunciation of "polyphony," and finally against a recently found inspirational

quote by an unlikely…