Diary of a Country Priest: Chapters 5-6

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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David’s sick, so this week Heidi and Sean discuss letting go of worldly attachments, the value of the priest’s weakness, his first spiritual successes, and his changing relationship with the diary.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Heidi White.
0:04.4	And I'm Sean Johnson.
0:05.9	And this is Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader.
0:11.0	And today we are talking about the Diary of a Country Priest, Chapter 5 and 6.
0:16.9	And it is just Sean and I today.
0:20.5	Big news, we fired David because he, I can't even think of an imaginary reason to fire David.
0:28.3	Can you?
0:29.3	Yeah. The truth is stranger than fiction.
0:31.8	You won't even believe it, so we can't tell you.
0:33.5	There you go.
0:34.5	Yes.
0:35.4	Yeah.
0:36.0	There is a great story about, oh, who was it? An author, you will probably
0:41.1	know this story, knowing you, Sean, about, it was like circulating on social media a while ago,
0:46.5	and it has become part of the vernacular of our household and my friendship with my good friend,
0:53.4	Emily.
0:55.6	And it goes like this.
0:57.5	Someone was invited to a party.
1:01.5	It was an author of some in a 20th century author.
1:04.0	I cannot remember who it was.
1:06.1	Truman Capote maybe.
1:07.0	Anyway.
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