Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You lived most of your adult life with sight.
He spent 8, 10, 12 hours a day reading.
He loved it.
And he can no longer do this.
And he describes this.
He says, this represents more suffering than all the rest of my life brought me.
10 times as much.
I honestly think 50 times as much to the point where I cannot even finish this sentence.
And so I would say for the last third of the book, when you're just reading these stories about Pulitzer's descent into darkness and madness, you realize one of his greatest failures is his inability to ever enjoy his life.
And so much so that his son, who is named after him, writes to his father, one of the strange differences between us two.
is the fact that you have never come near learning how to enjoy life.
And so the book ends as a cautionary tale.
Pulitzer was bereft of friends, and the companions with whom he spent his days were paid to be with him.
His most important connections to his beginnings in St.
Louis were dead.
He was estranged from his only living sibling, who was also his last tie to his childhood in Hungary.
Joseph's children were a disappointment and his family provided no comfort, broken up as it was on two continents.
His wife Kate remained willing at all times to fill the void, but Joseph had spurned her offers of companionship so frequently that she ceased to ask.
Writing to Joseph, Kate marked the moment of their 25-year wedding anniversary.
25 years married.
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