Episode 536 - Candide - Part 3

I don't think you should would worry about losing any monk subscribers as a result of the Candide episodes. I'm pretty sure they all left last month!

It's been a while since I've read the Conan stories, but I remember at least one where he was a king, not a roving pauper. Incidentally Conan is the only way I've made it through this months episodes, everytime Chris or Chad say Candide, my mind translates it to Conan.

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Tom Král

When I was a child, I had a book of Jack Tales - the same Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk - and they gave me so much pleasure. Doctor Dolittle similarly was episodic and adventurous and wild. Much later, I mourned the loss of my Jack Tales book then was mortified when a re-reading of the good Doctor revealed some truly awful racism. When I discovered that Voltaire had done it far earlier and far better, I read each page with a mixture of rose-colored Jack glasses and Doctor anxiety. I decided it stayed just this side of the Jack line, but didn't trust that opinion fully. Hearing you two talk about it with such joy is a great relief. I much look forward to the wrap up.

Really loving this discussion.

Joe Webb

An abbé is an abbot, the head of a monastery. I do like that he's from the Périgord, which was where I was when I read Candide. It's the land of 1,001 castles. Actually a few more than that (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_ch%C3%A2teaux_et_demeures_de_la_Dordogne), but the local tourism office says "this formula has a very pubic sound" (https://www.perigord.com/en/mille-et-un-chateaux-en-dordogne/). I think they left the "l" out of "publicitaire", meaning "like marketing", on the French version and translated it literally,

Steve

Ooh, I love all of those. Especially Tristram Shandy. It's probably not Weird enough, although it is weird.

Steve

I’d love to read a conversation between the two. I wonder what Candide would think of Cimmerian religious beliefs.

Has anyone else every compared Candide with Conan?

You guys seem to be having more fun with this than I've heard in a long time and it's delightfully infectious. Have you ever thought of adding Rabelais to your list? You guys would do Gargantua and Pantagruel right! A romance about giants is defintely weird fiction! And then what about Tristram Shandy? A guy telling most of a story from the womb or his dad's pants? Do it!!!!!!

KateSherrod