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How unified can any group be when the audience has certain favorites maybe they like Paul more than

they like John or or something like that and I wonder I got right to it didn't I yeah

I just wondered if if it's awfully difficult

to be friends and do you really care about whether or not you're friends and you are

a group such as the Beatles or whether you're the Rolling Stones or whoever.

We didn't break up because we weren't friends, we just broke up out of sheer boredom, you know,

and boredom creates tension.

How can you get bored doing what you did?

Because it was going on, it was not going anywhere, you know.

We'd stop touring and we'd just sort of say,

time to make an album, you know, go in the studio and we'll, the same four of us and be looking at each other and playing the same licks and those silly

haircuts yeah those silly haircuts that you have now he's got his now. Hello, she was one of the most shocking and prolific novelists of her or any era.

Her name was Amantine Lucille O'Ror Dupin, but we know her better today by her nom de plume George Sand.

George Sand wrote an astonishing number of novels and plays and had friendships and affairs with an astonishing range of men and women.

She dressed in men's clothing and she inspired a host of 19th century authors and artists,

including Russian writers like Turgeneuve and British writers like

Marianne Evans, who adopted the name George, as in George Elliot, out of tribute to her French predecessor.

It's hard to imagine a city like Paris being scandalized by transgression,

but we're journeying back to the 1800s today.

Oh, and what does John Lennon have to do with this? We'll explain it all. The astonishing,

incredible, unsinkable George Sand today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to the podcast. Happy summer everyone. Boy, if there's one thing I love about summer, it's travel.

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