315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating
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The White Whale in No Country for Old Men
S Markheim is an American Baptist who teaches comparative religion at Yale. He's trying to bridge the gap between Buddhism and humanism, he says. In Moby Dick, Ahab has the harpoon but in the end gets basically what he wants: The white whale. Swayze thought he could achieve enlightenment by catching the perfect wave.
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