Episode 150: Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"
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Machen's Mother Fucker
This is our third episode on a work of Machen's and it is our great opportunity to say his name correctly. And I'm already off to a terrible start. Okay, so this opening paragraph is a sort of sinecdoche of what Machen's whole game is in this story. What we have is just an endless pile up of tedious, tedious detail. The discussions between Darnell and his wife on the purchase of a new cooking range goes for pages. If you're minded this way, you will find it very funny as a parody of the consumerist habits of mind where you are contemplating the purchase of something. That's what Marx called commodity fetishism. It seems
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