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Didn't go with T.S. Elliot today. Bit of Emil Zola. Yeah. Yep, that was from um, that was from that from, that's the opening paragraph of

Germinal, which is...

Oh my jean-Oh, oh, pavel.

Which is a, one of Zola's great novels, because he wrote, I think, he wrote about,

I think he wrote a dozen novels towards the end of the 19th century, that all interconnect loosely that follow the

in various different settings and generations follow the fortunes of a fictional

family whose branches sort of spread out in all these different ways and

most of whom end up living in kind of miserable circumstances in 19th century France.

Yeah kind of but hyper realistic because Zola had a massive social

social conscience sort of thing. So a lot of his heroes, a lot of his, a lot of his

main characters, they're all deeply flawed and human.

I mean that's his whole stick, you know, he's a humanist in many ways.

So he was, he was, he wrote according to sort of almost scientific principles. He said that the job of an

author is very similar to the job of a scientist. It is to record and observe human nature yeah yeah and

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