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Classical Stuff You Should Know

140: Till [The Romantics] Have Faces

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Graeme wrote his grad thesis on C.S. Lewis's "Till We Have Faces." Prepare to laugh your way through an episode, because--hoo boy--Graeme's grad paper was a doozy. It's like reading "Modeland" by Tyra Banks, but with less mascara.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know, a podcast about books and art and old things

0:18.3

and stuff that happened a long time ago.

0:20.7

My name is Thomas Magby. I'm joined as

0:22.2

always by Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello. And Mr. A. J. Hannanberg. That is me. And today we will be

0:28.1

discussing, this is actually, is it self-plagiarism? If you're quoting, if you're stealing from a

0:34.1

paper you wrote, what, 20 years ago at that, no, yeah, 20 years ago at this point? Yeah, I'm just going to read my grad thesis for the next hour or so. I've actually heard

0:40.4

weird things about that. Some professors will get mad if you reuse a paper that is yours. It's self-plagizing

0:45.1

if you don't cite yourself. But that doesn't, you you have given rights over to whoever your publisher is, I guess.

0:55.3

This is even if you're not published. It's, if you're reusing a paper, the problem is that you're not doing original work. That's what they would describe the problem as being.

1:04.3

Anyway, this is a tangent. Anyway, we were prepared to listen to your 27 page. No, how long was your thesis actually? Well, like 57 pages.

1:11.1

Is it actually?

1:11.6

Let's read your, so you're going to start reading your 57 page thesis.

1:14.3

No, no, we're not going to read my master's thesis.

1:16.1

But, so we are going to be discussing a book today by C.S. Lewis, one of his last novels,

1:22.5

I think it may be his last novel called Till We Have Faces.

1:25.9

And it is, yeah. All these characters with no faces.

1:28.9

That's right, with no faces.

1:29.9

It's kind of disturbing.

1:31.0

Is it a horror book?

1:31.8

It's a horror book.

1:32.5

It's about mirrors.

1:33.5

Wow.

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