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Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

With truly exquisite literature, it doesn't matter how ostensibly different the character is, the character before us is. In Emily Bronte's solitary novel, Kathy becomes Heathcliff when she affirms who she is. She says that if all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be. This is one of my favorite passages in literature. The universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. That's an idea that we see in James Joyce's Ulysses. Yes, it is an Irish novel, but Irish is a standing for human. Leopold Bloom, what a fantastic character as a reverse Odysseus is a standing

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