Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
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James Joyce's Stephen Daedalus
All aspirants are going to be a little bit jerky. It'll be characteristic of an aspirant that they're defective. The fact that Stephen Daedalus doesn't instantiate his own ideals is a sign that he is an aspirin. And so it's not actually that clear to me that his jerkiness gets sort of ameliorated over the course of the novel. His aspirations are aesthetic. But I think that he is... He says. Yeah, he says.
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