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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 274: One cannot . . .
Description: Chapter 6In Which Lorna Becomes a Legend and Herb Is DecoratedONE CANNOT leave oneself behind. Emerson and Huber were right: one’s giant always tags along. When we say that success or divorce or war changes people, and mean by it that it makes great changes, we are likely to be commenting not on the people, but on our perceptions of them. In war, certain traits sometimes appear with a prominence that they do not have or cannot have in peacetime. The bookkeeper who becomes the fabled hero of his regiment, who as...