"The Eclipse of Meaning" by Elijah Perseus Blumov

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-My life story -Poetic "throat-clearing" -Curtal sonnets -Why sonnets are the supreme lyric form -English vs. Italian sonnets -I'm basically Aristotle -The inscrutability of life and the nihilist's overreaction -The tragic mistake behind global warming and the meat industry -What does autochthonic mean?? -Sartre can eat my shorts -Aseity -The meaning of meaning -Semiotics, as if I wasn't pretentious enough -The impossibility of an immanent being perceiving or understanding a transcendent being -Science is not revelation -Apophatic theology -The burden of intelligence -It is what it is, and that means something -Lunar action at a distance -God as Solar Eclipse -My title is clever, guys.

Text of poem:

The Eclipse of Meaning

The world may be unyielding, mute, deaf, blind to its own cries, and still no claim will hold so bold to preach no meaning— meaning meaning autochthonic being we can find. This truth, of which we cannot speak, we learn as much through logic as sublime emotion; we drown amidst excess of thoughts, but know that something sets these tides of ours in motion. Some terrifying moon in this abyss… dark forever, but too bright to miss.

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List of the most common metrical feet: Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /) Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u) Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /) Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u) Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u) Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /) Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u) Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)