Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They won.
We're starting a new country.
And so they invite Otis out of respect, you know, and he comes.
And so the nephew escorts him, not only out of the party, out of Boston and back to the farm.
And we just have this one sort of bleak note that, you know, immediately after this dinner, his nephew tells us he just kind of breaks down the way the nephew describes it is.
There was a visible oscillation of his intellect.
He was overwhelmed by the recollection of past days, impressed probably with greater force by the presence of Hancock and others, of the convives, and by the scene altogether.
You know, it's hard to imagine what Otis was thinking when he was at that party.
But very few of us ever get to see The Road Not Taken.
We take our road.
The significance of the Frost poem, of course, is that we all take the roads we take, and then we make up lies about how we made the right decision.
That's what that poem's actually about.
Because most of us never get to see the other path.
But Otis did.
He goes to that dinner, and there it is.
The other path.
They're all sitting around him.
I can't imagine the...
just the gravity of that revelation.
Certainly that alone would have made a man insane.
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