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Francis Rosenfeld

A weekly podcast of short stories and book readings by Francis Rosenfeld. Discover literary fiction, surreal tales, and introspective narratives exploring reality, identity, and human connection—perfect for listening on the go.

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14:59

The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and...

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2024/10/11

Derivative: An expression representing the rate of change of a function with respect to an independent variable. Some phenomena are not about themselves. They take you one level, one dimension down into the substance of things, they are measurements of change, gauges of the inner workings of the world, consequences of movement. Every atom in existence is a player in a giant set of games of variability. Imagine the collection of all of these games as threads, clusters, and fabrics. These threads of

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15:47

The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and...

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2024/10/04

Precursor: A substance from which another is formed, especially by metabolic reactionYou can think of precursors as the ancestors of an event. Everything that is has evolved from something else, which also evolved from something else. The universe is a giant chain reaction still in progress. What you are looking at right now is a step in a very complicated sequence of transformations that started at the beginning of time. I am not talking only about matter itself, which is a good example, but

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15:56

The Blue Rose Manuscript - In Motion Current

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2024/09/27

Current: A fluid motion in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of fluid in which there is less movement We all see the world as a collection of solid objects independent of each other and relying on external impulses to set them in motion. I would like you to set aside that view for the duration of this lecture, and imagine existence as a self-activating fluid. Underneath the surface of this endless sea that is reality, a sea with deep, perpetually troubled waters, there are

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14:14

The Blue Rose Manuscript - In Motion - Timing

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2024/09/20

Timing: The choice, judgment, or control of when something should be done.Don’t mistake timing for scheduling, or planning. It is difficult to explain what timing is, some things are easier to demonstrate than to describe. You have already encountered timing, and you take it for granted, because it is woven into the fabric of reality and occurs naturally in all the processes that work well. Its most obvious use is in music, which would not come together without tempos, measures, and

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14:18

The Blue Rose Manuscript - The Round World - Folding

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2024/09/13

Folding: Bending (something flexible and relatively flat) over on itself so that one part of it covers another.Today we will talk about folds. The purpose of folding is to minimize the surface of a thin flat object for better storage or transportation. Just like a tablecloth, all things that get folded will display distinguishable characteristics: grooves, lack of wear, wrinkles. We fold memories in our minds for many reasons, to free up space, to obscure things we don’t need all the time, to

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15:01

The Blue Rose Manuscript - The Round World - Cycles

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2024/09/08

Cycles: Series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order. Existence runs in cycles. Some of them, like the seasons, the water cycle or the tides, are obvious, others, like the mechanisms of life, or the rise and fall of empires are not. Every quiet and settled system displays a natural tendency to suddenly and inexplicably generate unrest after a while. This happens because existence is motion, stillness means death to our universe. Anyway, about the cycles. If you watch a

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14:51

The Blue Rose Manuscript - The Round World - Layer

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2024/08/30

Layer: A sheet, quantity or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or a bodyLife is the sum of an almost infinite number of layers that sort out your thoughts, feelings and activities. This creates a lot of confusion as life’s level of complexity increases. You can usually focus on one or two layers at a time, the ones that come to prominence because of current events, temporary priorities or invisible puzzle pieces coming into play, but never forget that all the

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15:01

The Blue Rose Manuscript The Round World - Megapuzzle

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2024/08/23

Megapuzzle:A life-sized construct (game, toy, or problem), designed to test ingenuity or knowledge To start your instruction, what is life? Life is a giant puzzle made of pieces you can see and pieces you can’t see, and the more pieces you can fit together, the better your understanding of life and the more you can do. The mistake most people make is trying to solve the puzzle only with the pieces they can see, no wonder nobody ever figures things out. When architects design a building, they

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04:48

The Blue Rose Manuscript - Foreword

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2024/08/16

Beloved,I don’t know when these teachings will reach you, but reach you they will, in their good time, such are the rules of this round world. One thing I know, I’ll be long gone and many centuries will pass before you are born, you, my star, my destiny, my wonder. I have so many things to teach you and wish I could be there with you, but it doesn’t really matter, we’re all immortal, our kind, we never leave, we never die, we stay behind the ebbs and flows of the world to keep watch, to guide and

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02:43

My Dear Fiona - Epilogue

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2024/08/09

There is nothing strange about me, and I can't explain why I can sense people from centuries past talk to me in my sleep and in my waking state. We are born with all sorts of abilities, I suppose, and I wouldn't have known mine was weird if it weren't for other people telling me so.We use our unlikely gifts the best way we know how, the best way they fit in the normal fabric of reality, which they often do not, and since I'm talking to people long dead anyway, I became an anthropologist. It is a

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11:18

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 33 Sailing in Winter

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2024/08/02

Have you ever drifted into an experience so foreign you lack the means to communicate it and all the rules you relied upon to guide your life become useless?My sister and I ventured into the boreal night again, only this time it wasn’t dark. In the absence of light pollution, the sky burst open to reveal a profusion of stars, clustered tight along the bright path of the Milky Way. The night was a lot colder than we had gotten used to. The ocean air carries a lot of moisture to the islands, which

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02:03

On Authorship

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2024/08/01

While listening to a lecture on postmodernism and influence, a sudden recognition stunned me. Of course there are no new stories! Of course everything we think, regardless of our erudition or awareness, has been thought many times before! We all wade blindfolded through the endless pool of knowledge that is the collective unconscious, fishing out random revelations. The human brain is not sophisticated enough to fathom the structure of this giant repository, but that structure must exist, as it

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06:01

River of Thought

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2024/08/01

Sometimes the river of thought flows through rapids, smothering the new born consciousness with the many faces of reality, so rich and thick with meaning you don’t even know if they’re yours, if they even relate to you, if they even exist, whether existence is something tangible, something whose presence you can guarantee tomorrow in this ever shifting unfolding of meaning that surrounds us. I am confounded and awed, and somewhat eager to alter its course to reach the lazy river made of sunshine

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07:55

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 32 Northern Lights

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2024/07/27

Have you ever drifted into an experience so foreign you lack the means to communicate it and all the rules you relied upon to guide your life become useless?My sister and I ventured into the boreal night again, only this time it wasn’t dark. In the absence of light pollution, the sky burst open to reveal a profusion of stars, clustered tight along the bright path of the Milky Way. The night was a lot colder than we had gotten used to. The ocean air carries a lot of moisture to the islands, which

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08:03

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 31 Winter Solstice at Maeshowe

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2024/07/20

I always thought my life would be like the novels I liked to read when I was a teenager, where the heroine’s life was a constantly unfolding drama, replete with emotionally charged moments and anchored in the importance of her actions, where every meaningful event was anticipated well in advance and everything turned out more or less as planned.Finding you was supposed to be a glorious professional moment, and I daydreamed of basking in the glory of compliments and approval, and savoring the pith

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07:33

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 30 The Gray Gull

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2024/07/12

There is an entire obscure half to life, one we avoid, forget, overlook. You can’t overlook it in the northern realms, not during winter, when the nights are long, and where people sought refuge underground to escape the harshness of the weather for centuries. The dark half of the year, finding refuge in the earth, embracing stillness, these customs have been abandoned a long time ago, and because they became unfamiliar, they make us apprehensive. There is power in this dark half we avoid; it has

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09:08

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 29 Telling Tall Tales

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2024/07/05

Night falls quickly in Orkney at the end of October, and we drove quietly past the lochs and the stones to reach the Storytelling Centre, braving a bone chilling rain that promised to turn into ice soon.We advanced through the darkness in silence, lulled by the rhythmic motion of the windshield wipers, like the last two people on earth, who reached the limits of their familiar realm and dared to venture into uncharted territory. After a while we lost track of time and distance, immersed in an inky

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08:34

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 28 The Ghost of Fiona Corrigall

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2024/06/28

The sunshine was warm and hazy at the equinox, brushing the grassy knolls and the tops of the stones and sparkling on the lochs.I know you’ve been here so many times, Fiona, that’s probably why I can’t keep away from this place, and here I am again, at the Stones of Stenness, waiting for the equinox like I’m expecting something to happen. Spend enough time at sacred sites and you start believing in their magic. There is a still power in the stones, subtle, like tides, which quietly overtakes you

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My Dear Fiona - Chapter 27 Riding a Horse of Fire

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2024/06/21

The clashing of swords was overwhelming, the sky filled with dirt and thunderheads. There I saw them in the lightning, riding their winged horses with their hair in the wind.In the middle of the battle I saw you too, Fiona, and couldn’t recognize you, as you rode across the field looking very much their equal, cutting a wide path through the enemy troops like a scythe through high grass, with far-reaching, terrifying sway, looking ageless like an idol, and just like it unable to feel sorrow, anger,

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07:17

My Dear Fiona - Chapter 26 And Miles To Go Before I...

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2024/06/14

I spent some time on the pier after our parents left, watching the cruise ship get smaller and smaller into the horizon until I could barely make out its contours.Denise sat by my side with uncharacteristic patience and said nothing. I didn’t realize how different I was here until my old life visited, and brought all of its patterns and details with it, but I am two people, Fiona. Two people, with two different families, lives and interests, hundreds of years apart. They coexist in perfect harmony,

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