Hey, I'm David Kern. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Sean Johnson. And you were listening to Close Reads,

a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are reading Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs. Palfrey

at the Claremont. And we are discussing the whole book. We're discussing the final chapters.

And the next week, of course, as is our custom, we will be answering your

questions. So after this episode goes up, we will post the Q&A thread and you can fire away.

And we will answer as many questions as we can. Heidi, before we get into the conversation,

how is it going?

It's going great. School years started. It's good to be back in routine.

Yeah, you know, it is, it is great to be out of routine, and that it's great to be back to

into a year. We've been in and out of routine. Both are lifegiving, yeah. Yeah, indeed.

At the proper times.

So you just had your first day back teaching yesterday?

Yes, correct.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

And how's that, how's teaching your daughter?

Oh, you know what?

She is really great to teach, actually, because she doesn't have that kind of natural philosophical bent that my son does.

But she loves, it's so fun for me to have her in class because she actually enjoys it in that class setting.

And so I get to see a

different side of her and cultivate that. And it's just really, really lovely. Well, she's a fun,

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