Study 067 - The Bet
Added 2023-11-16 20:43:14 +0000 UTCCould you do fifteen years in solitude for thirty million bucks? We put the question to the test in Anton Chekhov's The Bet!
Special thanks to our reader, Jeff C. Carter, host of We Bleed Orange and Black and author of We Bleed Red and Green!
Readings are accompanied by Prelude No. 4 and 22 of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Opus 87.
Next up: Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron and 2BR02B!
Comments
This episode would have *messed me up* 4 years ago. The story resonates with childhood guilt that turned into adolescent goals that then became adult obligations. And then it does a triple sow cow because the child dies in the process of succeeding in his goals. I could write an entire autobiographical essay on this but I just wanted to say I'm grateful that you did this story. I'm going to sit this on my imaginary triggers-mental-anguish-from-my-childhood bookshelf, next to "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka.
Bean Planter
2023-12-23 21:58:20 +0000 UTC
