Speaker B credits philosophy with shaping his writing. After moving back to New York, he got pulled into exploratory theater and Richard Foreman's avant-garde work, a phase he calls a separate life that sparked his creativity. He's since moved on from that style.
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But someone asked me recently how much my study of philosophy set me on a course in terms of what I'm interested in writing and exploring. And I would say it's funny. It's like there was a time when I first came back to New York where more exploratory theater was really interesting to me and I'm always fascinated by someone trying to do something different, but the reality is it was like a very specific period of time where my mind was really engaged and really inspired, like Richard Foreman's type of work. But I. It's almost like another life where that just kind of started the ball rolling, but it wasn't like I got attached to that and that. That's the only type of work I'm interested in writing or thinking about.
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It, it's, it's. It lives. If I reread it today, I could tell you more about it, but it's been a minute. It's.
Been a minute. Yeah. Oh, I totally get it. Yeah. I'm.