Welcome to The Feast! Shari and Rhea are so excited to dive deep into Margaret Kennedy’s allegorical novel about the seven deadly sins. In this episode, they go straight to the speculation: who represents each of the sins? Who’s alive? Who died? They had a lot of fun setting up this story and are fully ready to have to renounce their deeply held beliefs on all of it.

Be sure to check out Rhea’s Reading Guide on The Feast.

Below are the links to the poetry pieces and the opera that have shown up so far in The Feast (Prologue - Sunday):

Links to quoted literature within The Feast:

* Nothing is certain but the certain spring

* Robert Laurence Binyon - “Burning of the Leaves” (written during WWII)

* Sunday | ch9 pg 89

* And whispers to the worlds of space/A sentinel…I hear at times…

* Alfred Lordy Tennyson

* Sunday | ch 8 & 9 | pg 83 & 86

* Their shoulders hold the sky suspended…

* AE Housman

* Saturday | Ch 3 | pg 16

* Why this is Hell! Nor am I out of it!

* Doctor Faustus by Christoher Marlow

* Saturday | Ch 9 | pg 45

* Il Trovatore

Here is the Reading Schedule for The Feast:

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