NB: Sideways was actually co-written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne.

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

– Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

– The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

– The Optimists by Brian Platzer

– The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

– The Last Messiah by Peter Zapffe

– Inferno I, 32 by Jorge Luis Borges

– The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

– St. Judas by James Wright

– Tichborne’s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne

– Happy were he could finish forth his fate by Robert Devereaux

– Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope

– Ars Poetica by Horace

– Epode ii by Horace

– The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden

– Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

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