
527. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Book Club (with Matthew Kressel, Lisa Yaszek, Joseph Reisert)
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
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Thun's Unanswerable Quest Is Interesting
I've struggled with what to make of Benjamin slash Lazarus, right? He's called Lazarus in the third part. At least the suggestion is he's the Lazarus that Christ raises from the dead but who doesn't accept Christ as the Messiah. And so anyway, that is his unanswerable quest is interesting. I think that makes him very sympathetic because nothing, you know, we shouldn't worship reason simply, I think, either.
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