ESSAY
CLUB

Episode 0: Pilot

Episode Summary and thanks:

On this episode of ESSAY CLUB, the Jester shared his prepared essay On the Shoulders of Giants, exploring Fight Club, Ashem and Moses in the Old Testament, Moby Dick and Captain Ahab, The Tower of Babylon, The Humourment and the State Library, The Mystery of April Fools, Walt Disney and NAZI Astronauts, Werner Von Braun, Rosebud The Whale and Citizen Kane, Douglas Hoffstader’s concept of Analogy and more.

Australians like to prank at an institutional level. Thank you to Phoebe for your essay On April Fools’: Prank Power, Not People’, exploring the tradition of large-scale 1st of April gags and the fine line between jests that charm and those that harm. Check out Phoebe’s website here: www.hartflicker.com

Thank you to Jake Sun for your poignant and sublime poem and sharing your exploration of the creative process

Thank you to Sam for your deep dive findings and novel explorations of the internet and sharing your fondness for some of the rare finds of https://neocities.org/

Thank you to the wish makers Mel and Mark during the birthday sequence. I hope all three of us discover our wish and make it happen!

Thank you again to Nick Marks for your music and credit sequence selections!

Within your writing a secret knew
perhaps fine Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen too
To uncover a crypt mystery and unveil to shew
That a top gowned symbol, with ears I’m told
Adorned upon the head they fall so bold
amongst gay laughter for centuries did decree
A riddle that no one could clearly picture, see
the answer to lies awaiting thee, for
what truly the origin of April Fools beginning be?
-Sonny O’Brien

2026 APRIL 1 – Woolloongabba Substation – 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Some think that fools don’t take themselves seriously. Yet fools are so weighed down in their seriousness that they can’t help but float away. Working, ███████ ██ ███ ███████, dedicated, principled,█████████ ████ ██████, █████████ ███████, audacious at being an idiot, — A fool, made from the air of the 12th Century exhalation of the Latin word follis— to blow, to swell, perhaps to puff up into the sky, to have a head so far up in the clouds, like a pilot flying a plane.

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