Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Manic Side of Insomnia
It's almost as if going through the motions of life has in some ways stopped her from reflecting on what's happened to her. If that's true, and I think something like it probably is, she's always had this scream that's locked up inside her that can't find a voice. And so it doesn't have time. She has kind of turned off that part of her mind that would even lead to that self-discovery or that insight or self-knowledge. Now that she's not sleeping and she gets this time, she reads Anna Krenn in three times and she goes to Dostoevsky.
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