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Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

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Ivan Ilyitch, He Didn't Live His Life Authentically, Yes?

It doesn't sound like as if he was like an outlier in that way. A but he's having a realization. He just sort of comes to the realization that this wasn't the sort of life that he should have lived, yes? Bu, and it's interesting. One way to frame that is, he didn't live authentically, but you never got the sense that there was some real ivan ilyitch essence that he kind of, at one point in his life was aware of,. But then chose to dothe more kind of, oh, i have to fulfil these roles and these expectations because that's what society expects. And nothing in the story rematesera great

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