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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Girl With the Pearl Ering

The famous, most famous painting of vemer is the girl with the pearl ering. I don't mention that at all because i don't think it achieves that for the simple reason that it's just a head and shoulder portrait against of just a black backdrop. It's as though a third dimension is masin missing. Is just two dimensional. Which, once again, shows how for solitude, an image of solitude, to be fully realized, has to be embedded in a social environment.

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