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You're listening to the partial exam in life, a podcast by some guys who are

once set on doing philosophy for living, and then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 242 is something like, can money buy you love, or another way of

putting the same question, what is tragedy?

And we'll be discussing Stanley Kovell's essay, The Avoidance of Love, a reading of

King Lear, published in his 1969 collection of essays, must we mean what we say.

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This is Wes AllOne, a bare forked animal in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Seth Passon acknowledging the world in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey speaking from the center of the storm in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Erin Alonick, whose love is more ponderous than her tongue and amd in Connecticut.

This is me that I'm going to be.

You're going to be silent in order to show you a little bit.

Exactly. That's all I'm going to sell this.

So before you become silent, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself.

We have been working on subtext, our new podcasts,

literature and film, and we've done a few episodes. We haven't published anything yet,

but that'll be coming soon, including an episode focused on King Lear itself.

But why don't you say a little more about what you do?

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