
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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The Greatest Man Is the Most Indebted
There aren't that many stories to tell every story can be traced back to an ultimate story again in much the same way as Wallace Stevens said. Great literature is that which aligns itself with the age old and the enduring with the biblical with the sweeping with sagas so there's only really one story. I've been mulling over quite a bit recently that our mythologies are infantile embellishments and we do lose that as we mature most people don't mature they merely age and lose their childlike sense of curiosity whilst retaining the immaturity of youth. We need to keep family unit intact as much as possible but when we read the Psalms it helps us understand how important
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