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Lady Lazarus and A Chat About Death, Part 2
“Lady Lazarus”, in Plath’s own words, is about “the agony of being reborn.” And Megan spent a good deal of the last episode attempting a career rebirth — an agony we can all vibe with. Not only did she have to contend with her own ambivalence about the situation, but with the risk of bringing her all-id husband dangerously close to an existential meltdown. The...
May 11th
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Lady Lazarus and A Chat About Death, Part 1
With all the death talk this season (cancer scares! nurse killings! snipers!), many Mad Menites are wondering if Matt Weiner is in the mood to finally pay up and off somebody. Rumors swirled last season about Greg Harris and Roger Sterling, but this season the likely friends we have on offer are either young sad Peter or young happy Megs. Let’s consider Pete first: Do you remember all...
May 11th
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“There’d been no escape. What did she so desire to escape from? Such a...”
– Thomas Pyncheon, The Crying of Lot 49 What do you think Pete’s reading material means?? Consider the captive maidens (Betty, Beth, Peggy to some degree) and the women questioning that malignant magic (Megan, Joan) in your answer.
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Mad Men Reading List | New York Public Library →
Well, look at this! The NYPL has put out a full list of some of the books we’ve covered here in the past. Here’s a tidbit we never put up about Ship of Fools, by the way: This 1962 novel by Katherine Porter is a satire that traces the rise of Nazism and represents its message as a “ship of fools” allegory. The ship of fools allegory traces back as early as the 1494 poem...
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