#1306 Ossian

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Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We speak with President Thomas Jefferson (as portrayed by humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson) about reading - one of his favorite pastimes. We also talk about the teachers who inspired his lifelong habit of reading and Jefferson's fascination with the Ossian, first published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson in 1760.

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Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.

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0:00.0	Good Day Jefferson Hour Podcasts,
0:02.0	listeners, and thank you so much for listening.
0:04.7	We really appreciate it.
0:05.9	I suggested this one.
0:07.0	You did.
0:08.0	Our readers suggest some, you suggest others, some just happen.
0:11.5	And this one I suggested, because I'm giving a talk at the
0:15.9	University of Mary a Catholic liberal arts college that's headquartered in
0:19.5	Bismark North Dakota I'm giving a talk for their honors program and what my theme is
0:26.1	the loneliness of reading and loneliness for me cuts both ways David.
0:31.6	Yeah that's an odd title to put it. But it's good
0:34.7	it's good it makes you think because what I'm going to say to them I'm
0:37.8	holding up in front of you here in the barn a smartphone I'm going to say you have to get out from under this thing if you want to be a reader.
0:45.0	Well you'll lose them all right then and there.
0:47.0	Right, that'll be the end of it.
0:48.0	Yeah. So there you go. That's why we're doing the show on it because they'll walk out in a huff.
0:52.0	But you know what I'm talking about. on it
0:54.0	will walk out in a huff but you know what I'm talking about the zone
0:56.0	and when that happens it only happens to me two or three or four times a year
1:00.0	when I get into the zone that way and you feel like I am the author and I are in this
1:06.3	beautiful harmony and what she is saying I see it's not words on a page I'm not bored I'm not going to get up to go pay my
1:16.1	insurance or make a cup of coffee I could sit here for the rest of time this is
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