George Saunders
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then I get out on the street and there's, for some reason, there's a string quartet.
I wander by it.
I don't hear it because of my obsession with these headphones.
Okay, am I punished?
Not really.
I mean, I don't know that I'm punished.
I'm not overtly punished, but somehow there's a difference in that experience versus the one with the headphones out, maybe.
That's not very satisfying.
I mean, you think, oh, Hitler missed out on a lot of opportunities.
You know, that's not so satisfying.
But I mean, that's one.
The book is struggling with that very question, for sure.
Oh, yeah.
I hope so.
I mean, yeah, I had, you know, a moment a couple months ago, I went back to my alma mater, the School of Mines in Colorado.
And so it was sort of an all-day series of events.
So they put me in this one building and kind of gave me a little temporary room, office.
And as I went upstairs, I thought, oh, my God, I used to live here.
And so the room next to the room they gave me was my bedroom from a really fraught year in my college experience.
So then we went through the day.