Marlon James

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3,415 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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Marlon and Jake Read Dead People · The Most Important Character Isn’t a Character · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And you if anything, the car he leave the characters to hang themselves.

The first three stories in Dubliners are in first person.

We're very much

in the c characters who are trapped in their worlds.

Yes.

Sometimes in f to frightening degrees if you read the if you know the end of the encounter.

But yeah, it's the trap that Joyce never falls in, and it's a trap I'm I'm weary of myself, is when the author makes himself up a smarter than their characters.

Or smarter than the world you're in, which I have very little patience for.

Well

Uh, I also think it it comes from a certain 'cause I I'm not gonna talk trash about

Living or dead writers.

Okay, we'll talk just about the dead ones.

No, but just in a sense that the

Not just that the right to f the right to access if they're above the material, but they're above their characters.

And sometimes I see characters make decisions, I'm like, Yeah, you but you wouldn't have made that.

doing.

I don't judge them and they do some terrible stuff.

I let them do it.

Of course I'm still judging and I never have them as friends.

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