
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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What Is the Value of Great Literature?
A lot of the value of great literature is when it is strangers or de familiarizes. We get to know ourselves more truly and more strange, that's why so many say literature is a lie that tells us the truth. I think it's very important to riff on the insights that have been revealed to you. There aren't that many enduring truths there aren't you can’t be novel with an emotional edge. If we are made more conscious of the artifice the art the construction what happens well if we are moreconscious of theArtifice we are more conscious of that by which it is contrasted which is the truth.
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