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It was mentioned as a book that the professor had used in his class, and a student used a quote from the book to help him endure a difficult journey.
He recently hiked the Appalachian Trail, the entire Appalachian Trail. He wrote to me and said that on the last days when he was so sick of it and so, so weary, he kept repeating to himself, he had be...
— Episode: 104. The Things They Taught Me
Episode: 104. The Things They Taught Me
It was mentioned as a book that the professor had used in his class, and a student used a quote from the book to help him endure a difficult journey.
He recently hiked the Appalachian Trail, the entire Appalachian Trail. He wrote to me and said that on the last days when he was so sick of it and so, so weary, he kept repeating to himself, he had been in a class where I used Samuel Beckett's writing, my favorite author. And he said, I kept repeating to myself from Beckett, 'I can't go on, I'll go on.'
