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Published · transcript-backedCynthia L. Haven: evaluation
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“The children had to call and tell them that their 60th wedding anniversary had just happened because it went by without them noticing.”
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- Cynthia L. Haven
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- evaluation
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- 24 Aug 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So, it hadn’t happened. It hadn’t happened. René did not run an open house. He had a surprisingly conventional private life, was madly in love with the one woman he was married to for 60 years. Here’s a story for you. Martha and René had a marriage that was so harmonious, they apparently never gave each other presents on birthdays or whatever. The children had to call and tell them that their 60th wedding anniversary had just happened because it went by without them noticing. Sixty, wow. Now, there’s an anecdote — it’s in your biography, Evolution of Desire — that Girard claimed he had witnessed a lynching, and that influenced his thought. But if one traces the chronology of that claim, it’s not obviously true. If we fact-check that claim, can it be verified? Or is he just making that up? Was he a fabulist of some sort?…
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