A Conversation about Spirit with Christy Wampole
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
4.8 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is KZU, Stanford, and here comes the drum roll ushering in another blast of entitled opinions. |
| 0:12.0 | We move our way into the corners of your consciousness with music and words of our own device, fanning the flames of intellectual desire. |
| 0:24.6 | You cannot feed K-PON-So. |
| 0:29.6 | We recently aired a special episode celebrating the 20th anniversary of entitled Opinions, which started up back in 2005. |
| 0:38.3 | Wow. |
| 0:39.3 | It featured a conversation between me and Christy Wampol, a Stanford PhD and one-time producer |
| 0:46.3 | of Entitled Opinions, who went on to become a big-time professor of French at Princeton University. In today's installment, we're airing the recording of another conversation I had with |
| 1:00.0 | Christy during my visit to Princeton. |
| 1:03.0 | This one took place before a rather large audience in Chancellor Green Hall, and the topic was Spirit. |
| 1:12.2 | You're about to hear Christy mention in her opening remarks |
| 1:15.3 | that both she and I are writing books about spirit. |
| 1:19.3 | She about the spirit of the times, or zeitgeist, |
| 1:23.0 | me about the spirit of planet Earth. |
| 1:26.5 | But before I turn it over to her, |
| 1:28.9 | let me just say to the brigade |
| 1:30.2 | that spirit is what moves between you, |
| 1:34.1 | my guests, and yours truly. |
| 1:37.3 | As my friend Michel Serr once said, |
| 1:40.4 | love the one who engenders in you |
| 1:42.6 | a third person, the Spirit. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, this radio program is your third person and Holy Spirit. I'm I'm I'm |
| 2:01.6 | I'm |
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