Ep. 125: Words Without End
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this final installment of the series on Owen Barfield, Spencer Klavan explores how the first and last Inkling's ideas can help us understand the arguments over the multiverse, the creation story in Genesis, and the very fabric of reality. Plus he reads some of Barfield's poetry. And all in under an hour!
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| 0:00.0 | Since thinking began, this creature called Man, made use of it mostly for fancy and folly. |
| 0:06.7 | He passed through an eerie, odd myth-making period, chopping up monotheism to Polly. |
| 0:12.8 | Then down, Gatoreno, especially Zeno, secure in his dream of resolving a pozer, |
| 0:19.1 | he slithered and wrought, ran from Polly to Pan, his wordsworth Blavatsky Shah Buddha Spinoza. |
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| 1:54.0 | Alright, once again, I begin with a poem by Owen Barfield, this one from a copy of CS Lewis's miracles that was owned by Barfield and he had written it written this poem on back inside cover, which tells you something about how carefully the two of them engage with one another's work. |
| 2:15.0 | And I begin, I cited this one both to show you the range of Barfield's poetry. |
| 2:22.0 | Some of it was kind of silly and a little limericky and some of it was a bit more profound. |
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