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Episode 49: The Great Divorce, Ch. 7-10

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The Ghost One Grows Out of That

The painter section is quite long and it really raises a great many interesting points about the function of art. So the bright spirit keeps trying to remind the ghost, you know, about the whole purpose. And he says, you're forgetting that was not how you began. Light itself was your first love. You paint, you loved painting only as a means of telling about light. Oh, that's ages ago. Of course you haven't seen my later works. One becomes more and more interested in paint for its own sake. This would be like a, and this of course happens, right? A pastor who forgets that it's his church is not the cult of him, right?

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