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Ellena Savage

Ellena Savage

Jul 16, 2026

DavidHOST
3:25
I
3:25
mean, what's happened to the study of literature? I mean, I went to university.
3:29
It was hard.
3:32
What I'm talking about there is the kind of endless loops that you can get into.
3:36
And I was sort of starting to become very critical of literature in the university as a, I don't know that it's the best way to come to appreciate literature.
3:45
And so what Pip does when she sort of drops out, she realizes that what's happening inside the university, and this is a critique from Horkheimer actually.
3:53
So I was educated enough to be able to read Horkheimer and critique the university afterwards.

6 MINS LATER

DavidHOST
10:02
So what's Sasha escaping from?
5:10
Yeah.
5:12
I think I had been writing a book that really didn't work.
5:16
And it was a, maybe it was too serious.
5:18
It was too close to my life.
5:19
Cause I've been doing, I've been like working at universities.
5:22
I've been doing a PhD.
5:23
And so my whole world had become really like really small and really surrounded by the university.
9:05
It makes people stop and think about our entire world, right? Like I love it.

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