Danny Jones
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Podcast Appearances
So the sponge, Nonas is writing about this, that the sponge is the antidote to the dipsos, which is the antidote to the North African viper.
But he's refusing to take the antidote.
He's just dying because he took this death inducer at 4 a.m.
in the garden of Gethsemane, and now he's just going to let himself die on the cross.
So like, yeah, there's that.
I don't know what to make of any of it.
I just, you know, I hear people saying that it's all bullshit, but like, fuck, is it interesting?
It's used all throughout Homer, Euripides, all these other authors.
Like there's like, again, getting back to the philology stuff, the philologists, they go back in time and they look at the context of all of the literature.
Not just not just the biblical canon, which is like a narrow lane of ancient literature.
But they're looking at the philosophy, the the the the.
legal texts, the medical texts, everything and saying, OK, let's take this word.