371 Robert Hayden and the Nature of Freedom | PLUS Literary Zombies (with Scott G. Bruce)
The History of Literature
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The Dream of Freedom
Rhetoric, the way a statue says something about who we are and what we value. And then how will he be remembered? Not by poems and statues and legends, but lives grown out of his life. Another gorgeous phrase. And the dream is the beautiful, needful thing. I think we've talked enough about this now that you will hopefully see where i am coming when i say that freedom is slippery. It's an absolute much to be desired, but it can be hard to pin down. We can look at the freedom of driving on the side of the road. We don't have that, do we? The freedom to drive on whatever side of theRoad we want.
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