Baffling combustions, Ted said, are everywhere, and we aim to find and dance, however faultingly, in their light. Join three men in a pod, hosts Andrew McCarron, Sam Truitt and Sparrow, as they plumb the mundane and cosmic strange, mysterious and beguiling events of the human and natural. Please note that while we sometimes wrench and wrest, its always inalienably with ourselves: or in these experiments, no idea is ever harmed, only nested. This month: In this second of two podcasts we augur further into, and maybe a little way through, Gertrude Stein's essay "Composition as Explanation," originally delivering into human time in the winter of 1925-26 in England as a lecture and subsequently published as a text the following year. In this second approach we look through some holes we knocked out in the first round. This work is dedicated to Marcus DeCosta, the American educator, who died in early August of 2020. Here's a link to the text: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/694-explanation