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Reluctant widow, golfer, retired nurse/academic, left/liberal/progressive

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@Alan_Couzens If I wanted 6d worth of hot chips after school or lollies from the tuck shop, I had to walk 2.5 miles home, because that was my bus fare. It was worth it :)

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@RageSheen @AndrewM4000 Our whole health system would be in tatters

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@aapayes @Wendy_Bacon .

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@PeterCronau @SerkanTheWriter @abcnews The New Daily too.

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@RageSheen Occasionally I shop at Inala markets in Brisbane, a place with a large Asian and Islander customer and retailer population. My much travelled friends will not go there because of that. Ironic

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The great writers understood certain truths about human nature that they worked out and relayed through their novels.

Yet modern readers approach these great literature with our own pre-existing, romanticized lenses.

The work then fails to enlighten us; we are not truly transformed, save, perhaps, for the elevation of certain virtues in our eyes.

The essential truth which the novelist uncovers through his or her work, or relays by it, remains hidden to us.

The recognizably great works are praised by us, but we fail to see how truly great they are.

René Girard, in a remarkable attempt, deduces and systematizes these ‘novelistic truths’ in his 1961 work, Mensonge Romantique et Vérité Romanesque (translated ‘Deceit, Desire and the Novel’ in English).

Several decades later, we continue to read these great works with romanticized lenses; we do not recognize the crucial point on which they diverge from the lesser works.

As a mere reader of Girard — not as a literary scholar — I've therefore decided to share a slow, ongoing exploration of the great works one-by-one, through the lens of the ‘novelistic truth.’

In my view, the hard part's already been done by Girard — especially in his books ‘Deceit, Desire, and the Novel,’ ‘Resurrection from the Underground,’ and ‘A Theatre of Envy.’

I'm absolutely convinced that everyone who reads along attentively will see things that I could not see in the texts. I'm counting on that! — I'm looking forward to learning a great deal from you!

And if the idea of looking at the great works through the eyes of René Girard, or simply the idea of a new perspective on them, appeals to you, kindly like and reply to this post — or repost it for your own dear followers.

I'd really love to know you're here for it!

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@DavidJoffe64 It’s a good thing nonetheless.

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@Wariohead_ @runliftrunlift Golfers I know, mostly women 70+, who walk and push buggies are pretty fit

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@zillowgonewild Ensuites - no to toilet near bedroom

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@RussellShaw_MLS @flatlander @thegarybrecka That’s the best description of zone 2 I’ve seen: I think I now understand what it is

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@Partisangirl @JonesHowDareYou I’m re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment and the phrase makes an appearance there too

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@hjluks I’m doing all of these bar the jumping: TKR 6 months ago. Is there an alternative? Thanks for all your work

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@maggiej464748 @Microinteracti1 I love that book!

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@Jeff_Sparrow Is the Zionist goal to destroy the arts?

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@Mangan150 So maybe isometric exercise is the way to go?

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@cheryl_kernot @jommy_tee Initially I thought you were referring to their intelligence, but I see it’s more that they’re unsavoury fellow travellers.

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@noplaceforsheep Bookshop in Given Tce Paddington had an Israeli flag flying outside yesterday as well as a sandwich board stating we were warned that voting for the Greens would be a problem. I found the whole set up deeply offensive.

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@hjluks Thanks for this link

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@richroll @stevemagness Is it actually him? If so, is there something very wrong cognitively maybe?

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@stevemagness Simple indicates deep understanding