An exploration of The Emperor archetype through the sex lives of Orthodox Jews and the sublime wittering of John Ashbery. Thanks to Sophie for her FFA (Free Free-Association) of this card. Each FFA involves Sophie, freely-associating around the episode card which until that moment she had never set eyes on before. I see the FFAs as buckets of cool spring water from The Well of The Collective Unconscious. -- Links: What Is The Language Using Us For by W.S. Graham John Ashbery Interview with Alfred A. Poulin Jr. (November 27, 1972). Leaving The Atocha Station (Ashbery Poem) Discussion of matriarchal religions from the Nearly Numinous podcast. Magnum and Higgins doing their shtick. Papa Can You Hear Me (Yentl) - piano cover Black Betty by Leadbelly Larkin Poe's cover of Black Betty Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' cover of Black Betty