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Life changes and peripeteia

There’s a TED talk by Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, where – in the midst of talking about castrating sheep – he mentions two words he learned from his classics teacher in college: anagnorisis and peripeteia. Anagnorisis refers to that moment when a character makes an important discovery. Peripeteia is related – it’s…