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EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROMISES
EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROMISES
ERUDITION TWISTS STALKING INTO ART.
BENJAMIN READS A STORY ABOUT
DEAD LETTERS & DOUBLE-TAKE MISTAKES.
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ERUDITION TWISTS STALKING INTO ART.
BENJAMIN READS A STORY ABOUT
DEAD LETTERS & DOUBLE-TAKE MISTAKES.
listen to the podcast now >>
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In this podcast, writer Benjamin reads from Epistemological Promises, a short story in which protagonist "Ben Hale" receives an odd missive in his letterbox. For the full text version of this story, please click here. Benjamin lucidly reiterates Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo (1968). An echoing motif in both the film and this piece is that of the doppelgänger. German for “double-walker,” this term was coined by German Romantic writer Jean Paul (1763-1825) to denote the paranormal double of a living person. Such characters have since been employed in fiction to enact trickery or represent misfortune. Indeed, "Ben" muses that the lovestruck sender of the letter—a scholar of semiotics—suffers from a tragic and almost osmotic disorder of mistaken identity. Real-life Benjamin Hale is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He released a novel called The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore in 2010. |
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