Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Sep 25, 2026 · 50 min · 12 segments
In this episode Jerry and Stably discussed Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin. The hosts explored this postmodern…
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Sep 25, 2026 · 50 min · 12 segments
In this episode Jerry and Stably discussed Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin. The hosts explored this postmodern…
Jerry's gonna like feel like ants are crawling all over him There's gonna be Buddhism so he'll have to buy into it, right?
cyber
yes speaking of ants crawling all over me I as I was reading this I was thinking this is revenge for all the times I made stably watch David Lynch movies
I mean that was like
once no you I made you watch
several oh you did you tried you probably ejected yeah I did I protested They're spooky.
They're scary.
I
guess,
does Dune count? Whatever.
Yeah, Dune doesn't
count.
But I've read one of his other novels.
It's good.
It's fun.
I mean, they're very much about Russia.
I'm sure even you could pick up on that, right?
So that's the other thing I was going to ask you, right? Because I've been exposed to, I guess, three Russian books at this point, right? And you guys seem to be just...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
One thing that was really interesting for me about reading this book is just comparing...
I mean, a very small sample for me, right? And just generally what I have,
the stereotype that I have of
was kind of kind of comparing it to American thinking right and like you guys are so fucking obsessed with the the soul of the motherland and what it means to be Russian and Like how you're the national character and how it? holds you back or Assess certain limitations or certain there's certain ruts there like and you're obsessed about it and i don't know that came through
Jerry's gonna like feel like ants are crawling all over him There's gonna be Buddhism so he'll have to buy into it, right?
cyber
yes speaking of ants crawling all over me I as I was reading this I was thinking this is revenge for all the times I made stably watch David Lynch movies
I mean that was like
once no you I made you watch
several oh you did you tried you probably ejected yeah I did I protested They're spooky.
They're scary.
I
guess,
does Dune count? Whatever.
Yeah, Dune doesn't
count.
But I've read one of his other novels.
It's good.
It's fun.
I mean, they're very much about Russia.
I'm sure even you could pick up on that, right?
So that's the other thing I was going to ask you, right? Because I've been exposed to, I guess, three Russian books at this point, right? And you guys seem to be just...
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
One thing that was really interesting for me about reading this book is just comparing...
I mean, a very small sample for me, right? And just generally what I have,
the stereotype that I have of
was kind of kind of comparing it to American thinking right and like you guys are so fucking obsessed with the the soul of the motherland and what it means to be Russian and Like how you're the national character and how it? holds you back or Assess certain limitations or certain there's certain ruts there like and you're obsessed about it and i don't know that came through
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