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OMG, it's FINALLY HERE! CARL, We're starting the TENTH FLOOR!

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Epigraph
Samantha's Book 7 Recap
Interlude: Chandra
Horrible One: Control
Chapter 1
Chapter 2

Starting Chapter 3

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Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken, 5/9/2026 ***

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The Times My Father Died by Yehuda Amichai

Finished The Lefthanders by Günter Grass
Starting: Mr Arcularis by Conrad Aiken

Finished Chapters 9 through 19.
Starting Chapter 20, which begins Veblen's book, "The Theory of the Leisure Class," Chapter 1: Introductory.

Chapters 1-3 were overview of Veblen.
Chapters 4-17 were summaries of the chapters in Veblen's book. Chapter 18 was synopsis and analysis. Chapter 19 was historical context, criticisms, and social impact.

Audiobook version with overview of Veblen and prologue summaries of chapters:
Starting Chapter 9: summary of Chapter Six ~~ Pecuniary Canons of Taste"

Starting "The Lefthanders" by Gunter Grass

Finished Book 8 & commentary.
Focuses on the 4 flawed regimes. Socrates describes a chain of decline starting from aristocracy:
Aristocracy → timocracy (due to failures in breeding guardians).
Timocracy → oligarchy (as rulers prioritize wealth over honor).
Oligarchy → democracy (when the poor revolt against wealth-based rule).
Democracy → tyranny (when a "champion of the people" seizes power).

Starting Chapter 9: summary of Chapter Six ~~ Pecuniary Canons of Taste

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Lecture 23: Ursula K. Le Guin— Transhuman Anthropologist

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Lecture 24: Cyberpunk, Postmodernism, and Beyond

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Lecture 22: Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia

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Lecture 23: Ursula K. Le Guin— Transhuman Anthropologist

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Lecture 21: Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future

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Lecture 22: Asimov and Clarke—Cousins in Utopia

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Lecture 20: Pulp Fiction, Bradbury,& the American Myth

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Lecture 21: Robert A. Heinlein—He Mapped the Future

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Lecture 19: Science Fiction and Religion

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Lecture 20: Pulp Fiction, Bradbury,& the American Myth

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Lecture 18: The History of Utopia

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Lecture 19: Science Fiction and Religion

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The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Eckhardt at a Window by Eric McCormack

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The House-Hunters by Peter Green

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall Paper

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Lecture 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic
very informative, Wells incorporated some of Darwin's discoveries

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Lecture 18: The History of Utopia

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The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship by Gabriel García Márquez

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The House-Hunters by Peter Green

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Lecture 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade

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Lecture 17: Wells—Industrialization of the Fantastic

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Lecture 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complexar
[last 3rd, section on Poe's 'scientific' language]

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Lecture 16: Jules Verne and the Robinsonade

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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction

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Lecture 15: Hawthorne, Poe, and the Eden Complex

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Lecture 13: Defining Science Fiction

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Lecture 14: Mary Shelley—Grandmother of Science Fiction

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Lecture 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic
Lecture 12: Postmodernism and the Fantastic

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Lecture 13: Defining Science Fiction

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Lecture 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic

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Lecture 11: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic

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"Faithful Peter" by Lion Feuchtwanger ****

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"The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" by Gabriel García Márquez

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Lecture 9: Robbe-Grillet—Experimental Fiction & Myth
That was great. I would never have understood Robbe-Grillet without this discussion. Professor focuses on "The Erasers" but includes myth, Roland Barthes, Freud, Levi Strauss.

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Lecture 10: Tolkien & Mass Production of the Fantastic

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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art

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Lecture 9: Robbe-Grillet—Experimental Fiction & Myth

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Lecture 7: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies

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Lecture 8: Woolf—Fantastic Feminism & Periods of Art

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Lecture 6: H.G. Wells—We Are All Talking Animals

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Lecture 7: Franz Kafka—Dashed Fantasies