Anchoret storytellers edition, mixing up the medicine (profane + sacred).
Moved by the jests of German folk buffoon Till Eulenspiegel, we harness the perennial craft of storytelling to sacralize Xan-induced humiliations and to see ourselves from the perspective of the divine.
Ryder scrapes the archives of his unsober past to regale us with the tale of How he joined the Vernon County Cosa Nostra, received the stigmata, and humiliated himself on the patio.
Reflecting on a lost friendship rekindled, Hank unfolds a theory of the environmentally poisoned boy-gangs of Northeast Minneapolis, ever on guard against obscure threats from the outside.
We tell stories to preserve in one another the capacity to accept love, becoming each our own Scheherazade of the One Thousand and One Nights.
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Outro song: MBE -“Have a Party”
