Ithik: Is this a just thing? We really want your child to do it? Especially given the specific thing that she does in order to make her revenge happen, which is too like, half sex with somebody that she deliberately chooses as a kind of, like, foul mouthed smell. Andtha thas whone of the things i want to ask you about is the one or two proper names,. You know, that's a perfect little bor s andt there. I think what she either like, there's a lot of ways to interpret that. One is just for the plan to go properly, she has to be truly disgusted by what happened to her. But
It’s a Borges bonanza! David and Tamler dive into two stories: “Emma Zunz” and “Borges and I.” The first seems like a straightforward daughter revenge story (Tamler’s favorite genre), but Borges being Borges there are layers of doubt and fuzziness about what exactly is going on. “Borges and I” may be less than a page, but it has us questioning our identity, the relationship between private and public selves, and what happens to when you release a work out into the world.
Plus, back to social psychology. Are you a picky eater? Then people think you suck at sex. We are not sure who is recording this podcast.
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- People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted
- Bradshaw, H. K., Mengelkoch, S., Espinosa, M., Darrell, A., & Hill, S. E. (2021). You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111082. — You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability
- Emma Zunz by Jorge Luis Borges
- Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges