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In this episode, Phil and JF are joined by music scholar and Weird Studies assistant Meredith Michael to discuss two strange and unsettling short stories: J.G. Ballard\'s "The Gioconda of the Twilight Noon" (1964) and Ursula K. Le Guin\'s "She Unnames Them" (1985). Their plan was to talk about three stories, but they never got to Phil\'s pick, which will be the focus of episode 119. The reason is that Le Guin and Ballard\'s stories share surprising resonances that merited close discussion. From opposite perspectives, both tales put words to a region of reality that resists discursive description, a borderland where that which is named reveals its unnamed facet, and that which must remain unseen reveals itself to the inner eye.

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REFERENCES

J. G. Ballard, \\u201cThe Giaconda of the Twilight Noon,\\u201d from The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
\\nUrsula K. Le Guin, "She Unnames Them," from The Real and the Uneal
\\nAlfred Hitchcock (dir.), The Birds
\\nJung\'s concept of the collective unconscious
\\nWalter Pater, The Renaissance
\\nUrsula K. Le Guin, \\u201cShe Unnames Them\\u201d in The Real and the Unreal
\\nHenri Bergson, Creative Evolution
\\nM. C .Richards, Centering
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 35 on Centering
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 81 on The Course of the Heart
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 84 on the Empress
\\nLinguistically deprived children
\\nWalter Ong, Orality and Literacy
\\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge\'s thoughts on on imagination and fancy can be found in Biographia Literaria

Special Guest: Meredith Michael.