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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“If I keep decent health, I feel within five years, I’ll have been able to see the significant cities of the New World. That will make me happy, and I’ll write a book about it — the process of doing it, and what I thought the major questions were, and what I learned.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 24 Aug 2022
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…Doesn’t it bother you that you could die without having seen everything? [laughs] I have this strange ambition to actually see every significant city in the New World, which is not everything by any means, but I don’t really have a strong ambition to see all of Africa. It would interest me, but it just seems not feasible for a number of reasons. If I keep decent health, I feel within five years, I’ll have been able to see the significant cities of the New World. That will make me happy, and I’ll write a book about it — the process of doing it, and what I thought the major questions were, and what I learned. That sounds like fun.…
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