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George Saunders

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2018 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

I mean, well, we, well, we, I do a lot of stuff.

We don't hire out a lot of work, you know, like we some, but mostly I'm, you know, I'm like, I like to clean the house and I like to do the toilets.

So, I mean, so I'm, I do find that I'm just, I don't like those things at all.

No, I don't like them, but I, but I do, but I hate hastening back to chicken unlimited.

And lost in a task is really nice for me because my mind is very active.

And to be physically engaged with anything, really, it can be the smallest, silliest thing.

It does something nice to the mind.

And also, creatively, there's a lot of times where we're really...

good solutions come when you're doing something else, you know, when you're whatever, mopping, you know, then suddenly the story will kind of, it almost feels like it sneaks up behind you and goes, here's the answer, you know.

Well, you put your finger on the really kind of the center of the book.

She would say her job is to comfort him.

She doesn't really define what that means.

And I think what we come to find out is she's not that good at her job.

She has this idea that if she just shows up and says all is well, the dying person will be comforted, which I'm sure in some cases is true.

She had an experience at her death that it caused her to be super sympathetic for all human beings.

And her thing is that basically if you really look closely at it from the angel point of view, everything good about you, everything not so good about you.