The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

01/09/2025 51 min Episodio 16
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode, Jordan and Brendan discuss the nature of dignity, the soul-crushing need to justify your existence, the cost of disordered loves, ambiguous epiphanies, the inherent value of humanity, the classist admiration for English lords, and whether or not they would have made good butlers.
 
What We’re Reading:

The Cost of the Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer 


The Chosen by Chaim Potok


The Second Coming by Walker Percy

 
Other Mentions:

Tom Waits - “Ruby’s Arms”
Luke 11, Matthew 23
Unreliable Narrators
Foils

 
Next episode we will be discussing The Lottery  by Shirley Jackson. We hope you join us!
Music by Brendan Michael and Will Berry
Podcast Graphic designed by Alex Morra