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Bonus Ep 83 - The Decameron 2: First Day
🕑 Added 2025-03-28 12:00:14 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your second bonus episode for March 2025 and your second in our book club series on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron. we're back and we're talking Day One. as you know, 10 young men and women have fled the Black Death in Florence for a nearby villa where they will tell stories to pass the time. Pampinea is made the queen for the day and she decrees that there is no set topic o we get a host of stories about bad priests, good Jews, Saladin, horny old men, and more! we cover 5 of the stories.
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PlatinumBard
I love that first story a lot. There's a song by Lotus Thief called In Perdition which is about it and goes hard af
Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
The young monk in the throuple clearly knows his Talmud, cuz his argument is right out of the story of Rav Kahana¹ [1] Who hid under the bed of his Rabbi and his wife and, when caught, said "This too is Torah and l must learn it"
