Storyological 1.20 - A HIGH SPEED RAINBOW

In which we discuss,

"The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente, Clarkesworld

along with, among other things... 

• The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
• Rainbows. Yeah, rainbows.
• Lewis Carroll, writer of Alice in Wonderland, among other things.
• John Gardener, The Art of Fiction (fiction as sustained dream)
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
• The body in fairy tales.
• Absurdism. Logically.
  • reductio ad absurdum
  • existentialism and absurdism
• On myth and threads, "Give the thread to someone else" a video blog by Chris.
• That one episode where we talked about "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan, THE DEAD GIRL IN THE ROOM.
• That one other episode where we talked about unlearning what you have learned, YOU MUST UNLEARN WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED.