Hello, all you textual deviants! It’s Monday night again here in Taipei and thus time for your weekly dose of Texting!
This week on the pod, Tomek and I consider the postmodern psychological drama film Synecdoche, New York. Neither of us had seen Charlie Kaufman’s cinematic tour de force before, but we both found the experience of viewing it to be profoundly affecting (though I apparently found it to be more pleasurable and cathartic than my co-host did). Press play to hear, among other things, our discussion of the movie’s themes of identity, death, hypochondria, and the interplay between life and art and to learn the meanings of the terms synecdoche, metonymy, paronomasia, and aposiopesis.
Synecdoche, New York, by the way, was a recommendation/request from friend of the pod Steve W. If you have a text of your own you’d like us to consider, let us know!
The video of last week’s episode on graffiti is now on YouTube:
Next week’s text will be The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. Until then!
MW
"Everyone is Everyone"