2024-08-30
35 分钟This is the allusionist in which I, Helen Zaltzman, mulled language into a golem and tried to order it around, but it just shouted, you're not the boss of me and went next door to live with my neighbors who took it to the water park and the model village and gave it ice cream for breakfast.
And I can't offer it that kind of life, although sometimes I think it feels a bit nauseous and then it misses me.
This is the 199th episode of the show, and since before the illusionist began, for nearly a decade I have been jotting down ideas for the show in two documents.
One is for short ideas, one is for long ideas.
There are always more ideas than I have time and ability to make podcasts about.
So now the documents are all together, 66 pages long and growing every day.
So in this episode you are going to hear 199 ideas that I would like to put in the podcast and I just haven't yet.
And there's still far more lurking in the documents.
And if you want to be in the 200th episode, I want you to be in the 200th episode.
Write a quiz question that has something to do with language.
It's pretty loose.
The format can be multiple choice or of your own devising and submit your question in written or voice form via theallusionist.org quiz.
Your deadline is the 6 September 2024, so get on with it.
I like our annual quiz episodes and if you're setting the questions, I can actually try to do this quiz.
So go forth and quiz me and your fellow listeners@theillusionist.org.
quiz I'm currently mid tour of the UK with the new illusionist live show souvenirs about the ancient roots of a sweary tech problem and the suffix gate and a font based friendship breakup.
One happy seeming customer described it as the right balance of facts and emotions, which is always what I hope for.
The tour runs until mid September 2024.
Dates and ticket links are listed at the illusionist.org events and if you have an arts venue or festival of some kind that you would like us to perform at, then do get in touch.
We don't perform live that often, and because the illusionist live shows are made for the stage, most of them never appear on the podcast, but they are my favorite things to do, so I'd love for you to see them.