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Episode 9 – Jerusalem: Vernall’s Inquest (Part 2)

Intro – We are getting tired. And the book starts to wear thin on some of us.

Chapter 5:  The Rafters and the Beams (skip to 6:40) – We get the history of African immigrants to Northampton. Black Charley leaves the third dimension. A new character is introduced.

Chapter 6:  Under the Bridge of All Saints (skip to 24:17) – A play about pedophilia. And incest. Becketts and Johns are there. We have a strong reaction to it.

Chapter 7: Eating Flowers (skip to 43:25) – Snowy Dies. The Universe ends… eventually. Snowy lives again.

Chapter 8: Cornered (skip to 1:05:40) – Jim Cockie is marxist. Well, a reformed Marxist. But really he is just a neolib twat. Roman Thompson thinks he is a wanker. But also maybe he is being haunted.

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Episode 8 – Jerusalem: Vernall’s Inquest (Part 1)

Intro – A sense of foreboding descends as we fret about the chance of an unsatisfying ending. Also, Dis book gets tough to read! Themes over plot. Joyce gets talked about, but not for last time.

Chapter 1:  Clouds Unfold (skip to 7:44) – Might Mike finally speaks to us, but all that we hear is an argument about Free Will vs Determinism.

Chapter 2:  A Cold and Frosty Morning (skip to 25:40) – Alma is finally the focus of a chapter, but all that we hear is an argument about Free Will vs Determinism.

Chapter 3: Round the Bend (skip to 47:24) – Loutal Joysea prenombulems round she ass y lums, ilbratses er concorpsescents… doubly sew, haunts Lucia nuts of materkynds tanks due all so womensole, a elast comborts into farces your two gramble calvon Freezed bills vagses Dieter man is him.

Chapter 4: Burning Gold (skip to 1:14:15) – Roman Thompson is like if Oliver Twist grew up to be Buenaventura Durruti, but without a Civil War to fight. Also, We learn the history of the British Pound. There is probably some Free Will vs Determinism in there somewhere.

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