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This is the partially examined life episode 300, part 3 no longer live.

Did you get any comments on the live show?

Friends and neighbors watched it.

They enjoyed it.

I think it was a good choice of text, which is why we want to spend a little more time

with it.

We have textual stuff to go over.

We can do some relating of, I don't know, at some point I wanted to talk about the, as

a phenomenology of artistic creation, which is clearly something he was concerned with,

whether knowing too much history or being too consumed with the history makes as actually

a creative block that I know that when I was a younger person, there's a certain bold

ignorance.

Comparing yourself as quickly to everything that has come before such that you can actually

not get constipated and just freaking create.

Now it's just like, I don't know, it's all been done.

It's also about the accumulation of all these different influences without being able

to really use them, right, to make them have an outer effect.

They just become a part of this inner outer distinction.

Maybe the thing to talk about actually the inner outer distinction.

I don't know that I completely understood it.

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