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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 584: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Does it promote pedophilia?
Description: With special guest Longinus, Pigweed and Crowhill review Nugget Nectar from Troegs and then turn to Death in Venice, a short but unsettling story about beauty, obsession, and moral collapse.Longinus provides a brief biography of Thomas Mann, and then the boys walk through the story while unpacking its major themes.This is a controversial book, and they don’t shy away from it's ugly side. Mann explores hidden desires and forbidden obsession, along with the danger of aesthetic fascination untethered from moral restraint.Ultimately, the discussion centers on a larger question: Does be...