Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Angus Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He read the Greeks and Romans, and then he wrote all of his early plays like Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus and whatnot.
These are all fan fiction riffs on his favorite authors.
What we should be doing is we should be having everyone in school read their favorite poems and write a poem.
Read a story, write a story.
And then teachers will say, well, you can't do that because you can't grade the story.
And of course, the purpose of school is to grade everybody and tell them what their numerical value is.
And then you have to say to them, it's because it can't be graded that it matters.
And ultimately, the person who grades it most is the student.
Because you know you've got the student if they write something for you and turned in and they come back to you five minutes later and say, I can make it better.
That's when you know you've got them.
If they turn in to you and they don't care, you haven't got them.
So I was working in this neuroscience lab.
I'd become convinced that the human brain thought in story.
I'd seen that all these people I admired had read Shakespeare, and I became convinced that I'd got to get into the Yale English Department to study Shakespeare because they were the experts at Shakespeare, and this was gonna be the next path in my story.
And I confronted a lot of obstacles on this plan, but one of the major obstacles that I confronted was this thing called the GRE, which is this test you have to take.
to prove that you have the requisite knowledge in order to succeed in graduate school.
And I'd really, you know, never taken any literature classes.
You know, I'd taken a few like everybody had and whatnot, but I hadn't seriously studied.
And I just took a glance at the GRE and I realized it covered every work of literature apparently written ever in English.
And I thought to myself, oh my goodness, like, what do I do here?
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