Like, Literally.
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Literally, though, how do we read stuff? It's a question we rarely ask seriously, but it's an ancient one with profound implications for art, faith, and morality. This week I'm presenting an ancient distinction between literal and allegorical reading that helps to get past simplistic modern bickering over merely material truths. Carrying forward our conversation in art, this is a theme that will help guide the show in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is for those kids who are always saying things like I'm literally starving and then their parents will respond and be like okay you're not literally starving you might be very hungry. |
| 0:13.0 | Shout out to all those kids who are misusing the word literally. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm about to vindicate you a little bit, sort of. Welcome back to Young Heretics. |
| 0:28.0 | And I've just come back from traveling around a little bit. |
| 0:31.0 | I gave a talk at Yale, I really enjoyed and if I sound |
| 0:34.3 | kind of horse right now please forgive me it's because I was at the Titan game last night |
| 0:39.7 | screaming incredibly loudly at my team. |
| 0:42.8 | I believe you have a moral obligation to root for the home team and so since I live in |
| 0:47.2 | Nashville I root for the Titans but it almost amounts to a form of self-harm. |
| 0:51.9 | I mean this team is so heartbreaking and I watched |
| 0:54.4 | them go into overtime tied at 25. I missed it by just like one field goal. |
| 0:59.9 | Man it was rough. But had a great time. If I sound a little horser than usual that's why and I'm |
| 1:06.4 | excited to kind of close out the year we're really in the home stretch of the year here with young heretics and I wanted as we sum up and finish up |
| 1:15.5 | obviously we're going to do a Christmas special obviously we're going to kind of |
| 1:19.1 | take stock at New Year's and think about the year to come But I wanted just to return a little bit |
| 1:25.0 | to the subject of art and literary interpretation |
| 1:29.0 | because I think this is going to probably be one of two subjects |
| 1:32.0 | that I'm going to be thinking a lot about and talking with you a lot about in the new year. |
| 1:37.7 | So when 2024 comes around, I'm not necessarily going to do like a specific series over these five weeks the way we did with |
| 1:44.4 | virtue we're talking about this and that but I think these topics are going to come |
| 1:48.2 | back and I'm going to dig into them and I'm going to talk I'm going to be talking |
| 1:51.7 | a lot next year about what to do about art in 2024 and what to do about science |
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