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To Be Or Not: Dunbar and Juster On Suicide
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-That famous soliliquy
-"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
-Inferno Canto XIII
-"Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton
-The Catechism of the Catholic Church
-Prayopavesa
-Martyrs, Berserkers, Stoics and Samurai
-"The Right To Die" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
-"No" by A.M. Juster
-"Resume" by Dorothy Parker
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Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)