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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Michael Shermer Show
Themes Are the Ghosts in the Machine
i think it's a mystery wy works, you knowand i say in the book there's these thoughts about it. And that's not one of the inventions that i talk about in the book. Themes are the ghosts in the machine. No one has ever done anything because of a theme. It doesn't and this is, you know, again, wonth. I really like richard dakinsey might be one of my favourite thinkers of all time. But his obsession with meams is something that i do not share"
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