Today’s podcast is a meditation on a few of the things I loved when I was a boy, and on what it means to belong to a country, and why I don’t like to see old things, even when they have passed out of use, simply pass away. I’m having a bit of fun here, and some of it is wistful fun, too. For it seems to me that human memory is more than the retrieval of something you saw or heard or did. Animals remember, too; and the computer stores data; but when human beings remember, they can bring a whole world back, and, in a way, the people who lived then. Love and memory — part of what makes the human person an endless mystery.
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