She could not not kill him after being so fully and thoroughly dishonoured aso an talk about it like if what she's doing is some sort of precommitment strategy to make sure that she was properly in the mental state to shoot a man. But, like, there is also this weird kind of reverse causation, were, like, the imagined act of revenge causes the act that ends up being avenged. She imagines killing him, right? Like, that's the goal, is to kill him and bring justice to her father, avenge her father. Then that leads her to do something that is the thing that actually motivates her to kill her dead. The idea of revenge
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