A book of maps. In this week's episode, it's 1995 and I'm in the stocks for some reason. Meanwhile, John Darnielle is finishing up college and expanding his horizons. Featuring discussion of ISKCON, John Berryman, translating Seneca, the Throgs' Neck Bridge, and what the hell there is to do in South Lincolnshire anyway.

Show notes

Links to sources mentioned in the episode:

Darnielle’s comments on the Throgs’ Neck Bridge: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Going_to_Port_Washington

Reddit AMA featuring the ‘book of maps’ story: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/htsx1/i_am_a_former_nurse_named_john_darnielle_ask_me/

Prabhupāda, The Science of Self-Realization: https://vedabase.io/en/library/ssr/

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Carol Atherton on Waterland: https://passing-it-on.com/2021/06/18/teacher-feature-tom-crick/

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’:
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

IndyWeek interview with Grayson Haver Currin: https://indyweek.com/music/features/mountain-goats-steady-struggle-conquest/

Bandcamp interview on Songs for Pierre Chuvin and grad school: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/john-darnielle-songs-for-pierre-chuvin-interview

Joseph Fink and John Darnielle’s podcast, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: https://open.spotify.com/show/0nXkEK0eeD10Wn3MdGBNKJ?si=xGuKQvoARRCTT11CbQoZQA&dl_branch=1

John’s tweet about Thyestes: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/891506827803996160

West Deeping church website: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/14510/about-us/

Kansas college radio interview, 1997: http://www.themountaingoats.net/misc/kjhk.html

Various live comments on ‘The Recognition Scene’: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recognition_Scene

John and Franklin Bruno’s ‘Shrimper-licious mutual interview’: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/albums/72157604938464838/with/7142322151/

TuneGlue interview on oral tradition: https://tuneglue.substack.com/p/004-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

‘The Ruin,’ with translation by Jack Watson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin
Darnielle on Berryman: https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/04/28/on-berrymans-tampa-stomp/

My 2007 3:AM interview with JD: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-sound-and-the-fury-an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

Nahuatl references on Zopilote Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200928053602/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/zopilote.html#fn:azotlejohn

Article discussing Aristotle’s definition of ‘anagnoresis’: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3595657.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A249f3245eb1d1283378570906cb79b33

Books

Graham Swift, Waterland. Revised edition, Picador, 1992.

Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography. Picador, 2003.

Sophocles, Antigone. The Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles, with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin, 1984.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958). Penguin Classics, 2001.