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In this new episode, we join the dots between, inter alia, boredom, The Shining, Vilhelm Hammershoi's painting (Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, 1901) and émigré poet and critic, Joseph Brodsky.


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All clips used either under fair usage or because they're out of copyright.


All other nonsense is my own. Neil Fitzgerald 2026.

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