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Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)

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The Power of Persuasion

When I was a teenager, I tried to read Proust and I didn't get it. Sometimes it's worth having that experience of not getting the novel but then returning to it at a later date. That's actually one of the most powerful, mesmerizing, instructive reading experiences. So if you don't get a novel now or you only get a little bit of its power, catalogue it in your mind. Now with Austin, with persuasion, why is it relevant to me today? Well, persuasion is all about that old cliche, that adage, home is where the heart is. Kellynch Hall was to be let. Landfarers versus seafarers. The

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