Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
Daphne du Maurier was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, and short stories resonant with what she termed "a sense of unreality." In this episode, JF and Phil discuss her great short story "Don't Look Now," which Nicholas Roeg famously adapted to the screen in 1973 in a film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Recorded live at Shannon Taggart's Lily Dale Symposium on July 25th, 2024, the discussion takes a number of turns, exploring the ghost as an "image of itself," the phenomenon of "deathishness," the experience of derealization, the human capacity to break time, and grief as a rift in time.
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REFERENCES
\n\nDaphne du Maurier, "Don't Look Now"
\nNicholas Roeg (dir.), Don't Look Now
\nWeird Studies, Episode 66 on \u201cDiviner\u2019s Time\u201d
\nChuck Klosterman, "Tomorrow Rarely Knows\u201d
\nThomas Mann, Death in Venice
\nPeter Medak (dir.), The Changeling
\nPhilip K. Dick, \u201cSchizophrenia and the Book of Changes\u201d