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Can you get inside?

Marcus Aurelius read Epictetus so many times it became a part of him.

Chrysippus loved the play Medea so much and quoted from it so often that he joked that one of his essays was the Medea of Chrysippus. And of course,

it's not just philosophers who do this. Musicians fall in love with songs from other artists and make

them their own. Johnny Cash did this with Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. Luke Colmes did this more

recently with Tracy Chapman's fast car. The musician Phoebe Bridgers sings about this

on her song Chinese satellite, which we also have done a daily stoic email about. And in fact,

on her album, Stranger in the Alps, she covers the song, You Missed My Heart. And as she explains

about it in an interview, I have this thing where I listen to songs over and over again if I like them a lot, and I have to listen to that song over and over and over.

And then she says she was like, I just have to play this.

It's an extra level.

She says, I have to get inside it.

She said the song totally resonated with her and she just couldn't

stop listening to it. And you could say that this is what we need to do with the Stoics, not just

read them, but get inside them. Marcus Aurelius wrote about how the philosopher is one with their

weapon, like a boxer more than a swordsman. Boxer just clenches their fist,

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