Steven Pressfield
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311 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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But he sure made the most of it, you know.
Yeah.
And the other epigraph, just uh for anybody that's a writer here, this is a a quote from Empedocles, who I'm not even sure who Empedocles was, just that he was a Greek philosopher.
But in any event the quote that uh is at the start of this book is something I carried with me for like forty years.
I don't know if I ever told you this right now.
No, no, tell me.
I I I don't even know where I discovered it, but I read it and I thought this is fantastic, whatever.
And I thought there's a story in here, but I had no idea what it is, and I just kept it with me forever.
And what the heart of the of the quote is for is
He s and Pedicles says in this really high flown archaic way
anyone who commits murder, who takes another life, and including soldiers who kill in war in an honorable cause, three times ten thousand years that soul shall wander, an outcast from felicity.
And so I thought
Kar this is justice, this is karma, and I thought, This is my character, Telamon.
So when I finally put those two together, I thought, Oh, he's gonna led these pre these many lives and this is why.
He's serving out his sentence.
He's serving out his sentence.
Not that he was an evil guy, he was just a soldier that fought in war.
And
So anyway, if you're a writer and you've got a quote floating around in your head, hang on to it.
Yes.
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