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Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Panagiotis Agapitos on Byzantium- Part 1

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Robert Harrison

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8589 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2009

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

PANAGIOTIS AGAPITOS (Athens, 1959), Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture at the University of Cyprus, studied Byzantine History and Literature, History of Byzantine Art and Musicology at the University of Munich (M.A. 1984), and Byzantine Literature at Harvard University (Ph.D 1990). He has published Narrative Structure in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances (Munich 1991), The Study […]

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0:00.0

This is KZU, Stanford.

0:15.0

Welcome to entitled opinions. My name is Robert Harrison, and we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.

0:27.6

...and you from the Stanford campus. It's that time of year when entitled opinions winds down and goes on an extended summer break.

0:55.0

It seems like yesterday that we started off the spring season with a show on Jean-Pont-Sat,

1:00.0

but here we are some ten shows later already in the month of June.

1:05.0

Those of you who heard the Nietzsche show I did with Andrew Mitchell will remember

1:09.0

that the last is not the ultimate.

1:11.8

So even if this were our last show of the season, it may not be the ultimate one.

1:17.3

I remember promising you a solo show on Jimmy Hendrix, for example, so who knows?

1:22.9

There is always the possibility of the famous Pa Odola, the step beyond, the show after the last show, the Z beyond the X.

1:34.9

Entitled Opinions, it's not about ends, it's all about continuation.

1:39.1

So stay tuned.

1:40.5

Even when you think we're not there, we're there.

1:43.3

Silence must be heard. Even when you think we're not there, we're there. One of the main reasons in title of

2:17.1

all around the world. Without these communications that urge continue to receive from listeners all around the world.

2:19.1

Without these communications that urge me to keep doing what we're doing,

2:23.4

the show may have quietly gone off air some time ago.

2:27.6

I make an effort to respond personally to every email or letter that comes my way from listeners,

2:33.1

but let me take this occasion to once

2:34.9

against thank everyone who took the time to express their appreciation of the show in writing.

2:41.1

It really makes all the difference. And since I'm in a thanking mood, let me also thank Richard

2:47.2

Handler, a fan of the show who also produces a radio broadcast of his own up in Canada.

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