Garry Tan
speaker
1,293 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Garry Tan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Before his community cursed him, they tried to buy him a thousand guilders a year.
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Serious money.
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All he had to do was show up at synagogue once in a while and keep his mouth shut.
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Hear that in founder terms.
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They've offered him a salary to stop building.
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He said no, not for ten thousand, he said.
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He wanted truth, not comfort.
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Shortly before his excommunication.
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A fanatic came at him with a knife.
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The blade tore through his cloak and missed him.
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He kept that cloak, scar unmended, for the rest of his life.
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He wanted to remember what ideas cost.
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So what does the most canceled man of the seventeenth century do next?
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He grinds lenses.
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By day he makes optical instruments, tools that let human beings see further than their eyes allow.
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He makes them so well that the best scientists in Europe seek them out, and by night.
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He writes a book so dangerous he cannot publish it while he is alive.
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When he dies at forty four, lungs full of glass dust from making other people's lenses, the manuscript is locked in his writing desk.
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His dying instruction is
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shipped the desk by canal barge to his publisher in Amsterdam,
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