Dr. Jonathan Juilfs

She's regal.

But the dress is torn.

And when Boethius comes to her and says, oh, woe is me.

Life is terrible.

They threw me out.

I've lost everything.

And she looks at him and she says, I told you it would be like.

All of my servants, all of the servants who love wisdom have been persecuted by human people as long as human people have been around.

If you thought being a philosopher and being a high-minded intellect would save you from this, no.

This is the brutal kind of truth, and I feel like that's why it's so stark to me, this moment in 17.

I feel like this is lady philosophy now channeled through Cacio Guida saying, life is hard, and you quote the Princess Bride here, and anyone else who says differently is selling something.

This is the nature of our human experience.

It's hard, it's grueling.

Let me introduce another idea, and I'll let you guys riff on it, because I think you know where I want to go.

Exile is the banishment from home.

But I think we have to read home here in a couple of different ways.

Yeah.

This is the difference between all of the great Christian writers who talk about patria, homeland, fatherland, the root of our word patriotism.

Here, he's saying our home isn't in this world.

Yeah.