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Ep 120. This Is Not Exactly What I Mean, ft. Versecraft
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Ep 120. This Is Not Exactly What I Mean, ft. Versecraft

M & C & E discuss Laura Riding's poetry and chess vs. poetry.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

The Promise of Words by Laura Riding

– Elijah’s notes on the essay

Beyond Poetry by Blake Smith

The Republic by Plato

– On Portents by Robert Graves

– No Second Troy by W. B. Yeats

– Versecraft on Riding & Graves, on John Martin Finlay, on Cameron

Morphy’s Immortal (the Opera Game) NB: It was this game, not Legal’s, that was played two-on-one.

– Legal’s Mate

– ChatGPT

Carlsen vs. Nepomniatchi, World Chess Championship 2021, Game 6

– Wiseblood Books

– James Matthew Wilson

– Robert Eggers

 The World and I by Laura Riding

Death as Death by Laura Riding

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot

– The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

– Jason Gordy Walker

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Education of the Blind Poet by Cameron Clark

– The Last Act by John …

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