Escape from Zaza Island

Fresh back from NYC, we settle in for the season of change with a marathon episode.

As summer wanes, we bask in the reign of animal spirits; the songs of cicadas, tree frogs, and crickets; locust clouds and dirt piles filled with snakes; vampire squid ontology, cephalopod mood rings and blinged-out hermit crabs.

Off nootropic beans, we confront the poignant truth that sometimes we are just not hitting. We reflect on our Lost Episode, occulting the Anchoret arcana and culling from it some valuable lessons about getting lost in the sauce, the pitfalls of narrating your life, and radical acceptance of wackness. We extol the pure exuberance and profane light of ZAZA.

As a main course, Ryder gets Jungian on Hank’s epic René Guénon-type dream, where he spirals down the drain of history. Ryder shares an important message from Thaiboy Digital, prompting reflections on Ponyboi as magician, participating in the creation of the world.

Finally, we reflect on our summers: transience, cyclical time, keeping at bay “the terror of history.” Blessed are those who make it to the last 20 minutes, where we talk celebrity crushes, approach our resistance, and get ourselves into Hot Water.

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Escape from Zaza Island

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