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103. You Have To Mean Not To
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“I never meant for this to happen.” In The Seventh Gate, the final book of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Death Gate Cycle, Alfred tries to step out of the blame, and Jonathan won’t let him. In this episode I wrap up our Death Gate series with a story from a job where I handled radioactive materials, and a lesson my dad taught me when I was five: you have to mean not to.
“Mistakes do not require malice to require repair. You may not have meant to cause the problem, but once you know about it, you have to mean not to leave it there, and you have to mean not to repeat it.”
Chapters:
00:00 Hook: “You have to mean not to”
00:12 Intro: wrapping up the Death Gate Cycle
02:20 The Seventh Gate: Alfred and Jonathan
03:12 A story about radioactive materials at work
04:04 “You have to mean not to”
05:19 The lesson: mistakes require repair
05:52 Closing
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