# 207. Feast of Snakes (Morality and Metamorphosis) * First Part*

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Published: 2025-05-12T06:18:30+00:00
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## Resource

Full episode, archive, and support: Patreon.com/contain Experimental episode on two controversial but relevant fiction books: House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1978) and Harry Crews' A Feast of Snakes. They explore grotesquerie, madness, and Dark Psychedelia through the lens of Rhodesian Zimbabwe and Rural American South (Mystic, Georgia), along with Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Catherine Malabou: Reawakening: Différence + how to look at nothing, morality, transformation, Kool Keith's 98 year old refrigerator and more

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