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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 408: Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Description: P&C drink and review Cru Cab IPA from Big Truck brewery, then invite special guest Longinus to help them discuss a novella by Marquez. This is part of P&C's on-going "shortcut to the classics" series.
The book is written by an old man about an old man who is reflecting on his life.
On his 90th birthday, the unnamed protagonist -- who is a confirmed bachelor and frequent patron of brothels -- wanted to give himself a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. The book is about his reminiscenses, but mostly...