Tom McCarthy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
Tom McCarthy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a minnow in this vision.
Yeah.
Well, there's another very famous, but absolutely brilliant lens can see that absolutely makes this point.
She writes, so when discussing how Rosamund, the local beauty, she interprets the illness of her brother, which brings Dr. Lydgate to the house so he can fall in love with her.
She interprets this as providence.
Fred just fell ill so that Lidcate would come so that I could, you know, marry him.
And Eliot writes, well, she says a philosopher friend told me this.
She basically means Spinoza.
She writes, your pier glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions.
But place now against it a lighted candle as a center of illumination.
And lo, the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun.
It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection.
These things are a parable.
The scratches are events and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent.
Yes, exactly.
She's an NPC and she thinks she's the MP.
Yes.
No, your kids are bang on the money there.
So Spinoza is, you know, he calls the substance God, but he was condemned, I think rightly, as an atheist because, you know, if there is only substance, there is nothing outside the substance.
Ergo, there is no God.
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