Media Consumption 10/02/2023

 I've reached The Body in my Buffy season five rewatch. I have nothing more to say on that at this time.

I'm volume 15 of Fullmetal Alchemist, aka the detailed Ishbal flashbacks. I'm actually reading it through the second time - there's so much detail and so much going on.

I'm reading a collection of shot stories entitled Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami. It's not my usual kind of thing, but it's at least a compelling read.

The podcast I listen to, You're Wrong About, is tackling multiple personality disorder. My understanding is that this disorder does exist, but not to the extent or in the forms that people in the 1970s/80s thought it did. We will see if I am right.

I've been listening to different versions of Erlkönig, a poem by  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that was put to music by Franz Schubert. Wikipedia has the original German text and a couple of English translations. I first encountered this song years ago when I took a Western music class in college.