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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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What's the Effect of Romantic Love on Humanity?

The idea of being a romantic was in a sense quite new to human experience, at least in the way we think about the idea. And I guess plonked him down in that era when that idea wasn't very well-understood. The Alps were more impressive than ideas of God. Then you got the romantic poets where there's a kind of hotline to your feelings as it would put it very simply. It's absolutely something that anybody in the 22nd century can recognize this emphasis on human emotions and human feelings as some kind of touchstone of authenticity and veracity.

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