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Sophus Helle A Theory of Dog Ears
What makes a real book lover? Is it protecting your books from all signs of use, keeping them clean and in perfect condition? In this episode of Monkey Mind, Sophus Helle argues that loving one's books can also be expressed by bringing them along everywhere, leaving notes in the margins and dogears to revisit special paragraphs. This is a way of documenting a book's life and creating its history outside of the fiction written on the pages. Using the alignment chart from Dungeons and Dragons, Sophus...
Engels | 12 minuten (9,1 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sophus Helle Serendipity
Where do words come from? In this episode of Monkey Mind, Sophus Helle wonders about the history and etymology behind the word "serendipity". His monkey mind jumps from the gothic classics like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to fairy tales and letter writing, and he explores the dawn of literary genres like crime fiction and horror. In the second part of the episode, Sophus explains how the story of The Three Princes brought us "serendipity", and lays out the connection from this fairy tale to Voltaire,...
Engels | 14 minuten (11 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sophus Helle Going Blank
How many unspoken words of significance does a blank page carry? In the vein of last week's episode, Sophus Helle continues to talk about memory. This episode concerns losing one's memory unwillingly. The last episode was about remembering and wanting to forget, while this one is about forgetting while wanting to remember. Sophus discusses The Epic of Gilgamesh and the topics of love, loss, death, and missing pieces. While reflecting on the metaphorical meaning of blank pages, our host draws parallels...
Engels | 14 minuten (11 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sophus Helle Forgetting to Forget
What do you do, when a bad memory keeps haunting you? Forgetting is not done intentionally. You can wish to forget, but doing so only makes you remember even more. Paradoxically, the less you care about neither remembering or forgetting is the only way, you will manage to forget anything. Even worse, you might easily forget whatever you deeply want to remember. But whatever unpleasant thought or experience you might wish to erase from your memory will only vanish, once you're free of this pressing...
Engels | 15 minuten (11 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sophus Helle Monkey Mind
What makes the human mind human? In this episode, your host Sophus Helle explains how he came up with the title for the podcast. In between anecdotes from the British tax system and philosophy on the significance of volcanoes, he entertainingly tells the story of a supernatural character Sun Wukong - or Monkey - who, through his energy and excitement, functions as a metaphor of the human mind, and a story of Homo Heidelbergensis which brings us back to the topic of volcanoes. Sophus's way of storytelling...
Engels | 14 minuten (10 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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