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Ep. 218 - Tolkien as Philologist and Oxfordian Catholic w/Dr. Yannick Imbert
Parker's Pensées
The Truth of God Is All Around You
Even when a myth is completely disconnected from, say, the Christian story, we cannot escape the world that God has made. Even the greatest essayist, even Nietzsche, if he was the greatest atheist, will say something that is actually true because you cannot escape God's work. So the truth of God is all around you. You can't do without it. Yeah. I think that's so fascinating. And that's another part of talking's whole theory of imagination, where even the greatest power of imagination is just a recombination of something already existent. But the basic elements is dealing with will always be the same.
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