About this episode

The episode discusses archery techniques and reflections on the fantasy book A Wizard of Earthsea.

This week, I'm playing around with a variation of the archery technique I was working on last week (holding arrows in my bow hand) but also combining it with another technique, holding a few in my drawing hand also. They each have their pros and cons, but I think Logan and Aurora might have played around with both, and probably others. At the suggestion of former show guest Billy Campbell, I have been reading the fantasy book, A Wizard of Earthsea . This is actually my third time trying to get into it - once as a child, once in my 20s, and then again, twenty+ years after that. Third time's the charm, I suppose. I found it quite difficult to understand before, but I think the combination of an initially unlikeable protagonist and the dreamy, myth-like writing style were initial barriers that have grown on me this round. The tale is a great example of how sometimes, you can and should break the rule of "show, not tell," because it is very much the sort of thing you might be told around a fire on a dark winter's night. One interesting fact is that the author of the book, Ursula Le Guin, had parents who were anthtopologists - Theodora and Alfred Krober. Alfred Krober was…

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Blum

Topics covered

• archery technique
• fantasy literature
• Ursula Le Guin
• Ishi
• anthropology

Keywords

• archery
• Ursula Le Guin
• A Wizard of Earthsea
• Ishi
• fantasy literature

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yahi

Books & works: A Wizard of Earthsea

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