688: Ch 10 — Cranford

Ep. 688: Cranford | Chapter 10

Book talk begins at 14:11

Robbers, suspicion, and just when things couldn't get more tragic (or absurd), Mrs. Jamieson’s dog dies—and she mourns harder than she did her own husband.

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14:11 START BOOK TALK
Signor Brunoni and Miss Pole’s Magicsplaining - she only gets worse in this chapter

15:03 - Doctors are also dentists - don’t forget

16:10 - Remember that the French fought with the Colonists against Britain AND The Brits also fought the French in Spain during the Peninsular War (1808-1815) vs Napoleon.

17:12 - Madame de Staël with a turban on and another of Mr Denon-

Denon was an art expert who travelled with Napoleon to Egypt. One of his sketches is of a man in a turban:

18:35 - There is a reference to Philomel / Nightingale

20:34 - You’ll hear a reference to a mysterious “deadly force” - or “the gaze”

21:32 - Cheltenham, spa town.

21:46 - Virago—domineering bad tempered woman

21:50 - Videlicet - viz: Videlicet (2. > vi-DEL-i-sit or wi-del-eh-ket in Latin) is a Latin adverb meaning “namely,” “that is to say,” or “as follows.” It’s abbreviated as viz.

22:56 - Dr. John Ferrier—(1761 to 1815)—author of an essay “Towards a Theory of Apparitions” and Dr Samuel Hibbard—(1782 to 1848)—the author of Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions (or an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes (1825)

59:27 Post-chapter Chat

01:02:00 - LOGICAL FALLACY - Miss Pole: “I beleive he was robbed…”

Appeal to Belief ** - (argumentum ad consequentiam or ad populum)** Definition: Claiming that something must be true (or false) simply because one believes it, regardless of the evidence or reasoning - the Plural of Anecdote is NOT Data.

1:03:39 Mrs Forester - cold pigged in the morning to get out of bed

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