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This is KZSU Stanford.
Welcome to entitled opinions.
My name is Robert Harrison.
And we're coming to you from the Stanford campus.
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Do you all remember Robert Muzils, the man without qualities?
We did a show on that novel a couple of years ago.
A highly prized show, I might add.
If the various communications I received about it can be trusted.
Among its other virtues, the man without quality has the most interesting
and intriguing chapter titles of any novel known to me.
One of them, for example, reads a chapter that can be skipped
by anyone who does not have any high opinion of thinking as an occupation.
Thinking is our occupation on this show.
Thinking is a kind of music, just as music is a kind of thinking.
And like music, the thinking on this show has many keys, many inflections, and many moods.
Today we are in, well, a French mood.
Silence must be changed.
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I would like to remind our listeners that today is the last schedule show
of entitled opinions for the fall season.
And that will be going off air for a few months so that your host can catch up
with a lot of unfinished business during the winter months.
The plan is to be back on KZSU during the spring quarter.
Of course, those of you who are longtime listeners know
that your host rarely leaves you without a parting gift of sorts.
So don't be surprised if a bonus show ends up in your Christmas stocking sometime soon.
The last but one but one as Samuel Beckett, alias Maloy, put it.
Today's show can be skipped by anyone who has no basic knowledge of French.
I feel bad for you though, because I have with me in the studio one
of the greatest French philosophers of our time, Michel Serre,
and he and I will be conducting our conversation in his native language.
But of course earlier I mentioned that thinking is a kind of music and my recommendation
to those of you who don't understand French is to listen in any way,
because there is a music to Michel Serre thinking that comes across independently
of semantic comprehension.
Our topic today is a repress of the one I discussed with Vince Serre
on this show a few weeks ago.
Those of you who heard it will recall that Vince Serre is vice president of Google
and Google's chief internet evangelist.
He and I had a fascinating discussion about the future of the internet
and today Michel Serre and I are going to discuss that same issue
from a more philosophical and historical perspective.
Our technology has not advanced so far that we can plug into a universal translator
the way they do in Star Trek, so I apologize to those listeners
who will not be able to follow what we say as I now switch over to French
and welcome Michel Serre to the program.
Michel, the new version to sweat la bienveneur notre emissio,
"Meci mou goo, méri."
Not for a proposal we said to her visit like a Star Trek DJ,
the Duke of the United States, which you said, "Meci seir, mér seir, mér seir mér seir,
I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm not sure if it's a "mér seir", but I'm not sure if it's a "mér seir", but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is.
I want to thank Michel Serre and Michel Serre and Michel Serre, the Duke of the United States,
and Michel Serre, a "mér seir", and Michel Serre, the Duke of the United States,
and Michel Serre, the Duke of the United States,
and Michel Serre, the modern, the very, the comprehensive,
and the source of the Duke of the United States,
and the path of the Duke of the United States,
and Michel Serre, the Duke of the United States,
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You're feeling stronger.
Strangely.
You're feeling stronger.
Running in shadows and the air of the market.
Strangely. You're feeling stronger.
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And I think that is not the natural public and the natural public or the national public.
In order to understand the nature of the people who are already interested we need to get value.
But also because we need to be able to really provide a sense of freedom.
So, when do you think that you can keep reading any of these issues?
I think that is the same, the same.
I think that is the same.
And for example, I think that is the same.
And I think that is the same.
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