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Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

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Lewis - A Biography of the Former Don, 1990

The point is that it's true and pure and real. And t this is again, something that will gethat, wil get nothing but snobbery as a reaction from the kind of upper class of the intelligencia. He faced this throughout his life. You know, when he was at maudlin, tolken tried to get him elected to a kind of higher position in the university, and he basically, he couldn't do it because nobody would take louis seriously because he was popular. A n wilson, in researching his 19 90 biography of lewis, recalled discussing him with an old man who had been a fellow of maudlin around this time,. The

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