WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:04.770 align:middle line:84% I want to read those new versions. 00:00:04.770 --> 00:00:08.430 align:middle line:84% See, I got my hand in about three 00:00:08.430 --> 00:00:11.940 align:middle line:84% or four years ago with some poetry. 00:00:11.940 --> 00:00:20.130 align:middle line:84% Though I was so dissatisfied with the lack of finality 00:00:20.130 --> 00:00:24.000 align:middle line:84% to so some of the poems early in the book, 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.120 align:middle line:90% that I meant to improve them. 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:33.210 align:middle line:84% And even in doing that, I have found that I got my hand in. 00:00:33.210 --> 00:00:40.050 align:middle line:84% And so I want to read one or two others, in conclusion. 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:47.620 align:middle line:90% 00:00:47.620 --> 00:00:53.350 align:middle line:84% In my youth and region, it was not 00:00:53.350 --> 00:01:05.019 align:middle line:84% uncommon for the bright boys to think that they had-- 00:01:05.019 --> 00:01:09.910 align:middle line:84% that they were not the children of the parents 00:01:09.910 --> 00:01:12.880 align:middle line:90% that they thought they had. 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:14.440 align:middle line:90% That they would changelings. 00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:18.910 align:middle line:84% And they felt that they were heirs 00:01:18.910 --> 00:01:24.040 align:middle line:84% to some magnificent destiny, because of their intellects. 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:35.600 align:middle line:84% And so this is in the study of one bright young man. 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:38.095 align:middle line:84% So the title is "The Vanity of the Bright Young Man". 00:01:38.095 --> 00:01:41.200 align:middle line:90% 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.500 align:middle line:90% And I don't think that-- 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:46.990 align:middle line:84% I would say that I don't think it's possible 00:01:46.990 --> 00:01:51.280 align:middle line:84% that this could make a poem now, that you'd 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.000 align:middle line:90% have this state of affairs now. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.865 align:middle line:84% No, this thing in the mind of the bright young man. 00:01:57.865 --> 00:02:01.690 align:middle line:90% 00:02:01.690 --> 00:02:04.030 align:middle line:90% But it used to be. 00:02:04.030 --> 00:02:10.240 align:middle line:84% And I heard once recently, little boy said, oh, yes. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:11.390 align:middle line:90% That could easily happen. 00:02:11.390 --> 00:02:13.730 align:middle line:90% I know cases like that. 00:02:13.730 --> 00:02:17.450 align:middle line:90% This was a young boy. 00:02:17.450 --> 00:02:21.790 align:middle line:84% "Absurd in my tight black coat like a sleazy beetle. 00:02:21.790 --> 00:02:24.880 align:middle line:90% I wasn't minding my looks. 00:02:24.880 --> 00:02:29.800 align:middle line:84% I was looking at me, the boy bereaved of a title. 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:33.490 align:middle line:90% Minding his dreams in books. 00:02:33.490 --> 00:02:40.120 align:middle line:84% The fine student but not getting anywhere toward his title. 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.980 align:middle line:84% And here the boy he has several selves. 00:02:44.980 --> 00:02:47.770 align:middle line:84% And one self looks at the other self. 00:02:47.770 --> 00:02:49.120 align:middle line:90% That's what he's doing here. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:52.090 align:middle line:84% And at the end, I just put it in the third person, 00:02:52.090 --> 00:02:53.080 align:middle line:90% the conclusion. 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.320 align:middle line:90% 00:02:56.320 --> 00:02:59.830 align:middle line:90% To assembly, I walked alone. 00:02:59.830 --> 00:03:04.180 align:middle line:84% But forever pushing even to say my prayers. 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:08.200 align:middle line:84% Glaring with coldest eyes at whom I was brushing, 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:12.220 align:middle line:84% who would if they could with theirs. 00:03:12.220 --> 00:03:16.030 align:middle line:84% The other boys would glare back if they knew how, if they 00:03:16.030 --> 00:03:19.360 align:middle line:90% had my strength of mine. 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.020 align:middle line:84% In late afternoons, I walked in the green fable 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:26.800 align:middle line:90% and wasted for my miracle. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:31.600 align:middle line:84% Should a yellow beak intoned from the throat of sable one 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:35.680 align:middle line:90% syllable of an oracle. 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.340 align:middle line:84% Happening once by luck of my chances and choices, 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:44.680 align:middle line:84% on the holy druid tree is rulers whose leaves 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:50.470 align:middle line:84% translate the truculent voices stitched in the wind for years. 00:03:50.470 --> 00:03:54.850 align:middle line:84% I shortened stride at a shrubbery where two together 00:03:54.850 --> 00:03:58.900 align:middle line:90% parlayed and question rose. 00:03:58.900 --> 00:04:03.490 align:middle line:84% One saying, this boy, who tugs at tether, 00:04:03.490 --> 00:04:06.760 align:middle line:84% may be other than he and they suppose. 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:11.800 align:middle line:84% But one gets sired and dammed, D-A-M-M-E-D, 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:17.140 align:middle line:84% by a father and mother and surely acknowledges those. 00:04:17.140 --> 00:04:21.700 align:middle line:84% That sweet babe royal, if he was changed not knowing, 00:04:21.700 --> 00:04:27.520 align:middle line:84% but still he plays the prince, a king to be with his sword 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:35.260 align:middle line:84% and crest not showing, fourteen long winters since. 00:04:35.260 --> 00:04:40.330 align:middle line:84% Then almost he was absolved of a brainwashed ambition 00:04:40.330 --> 00:04:46.120 align:middle line:84% and tired royal blood and malingering prince, 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:53.110 align:middle line:84% from whose vegetary operation he sprang to his ravishing stride. 00:04:53.110 --> 00:04:58.240 align:middle line:84% Stopping eavesdropping for a wavering name and nation 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.200 align:middle line:90% from wrangler's gone so wide. 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:08.230 align:middle line:84% To see if he throve where the towers deep throb expired 00:05:08.230 --> 00:05:14.050 align:middle line:84% and was dumb in the unlistening room where a rabble babbled." 00:05:14.050 --> 00:05:16.510 align:middle line:84% He's come back to the college now. 00:05:16.510 --> 00:05:20.260 align:middle line:90% 00:05:20.260 --> 00:05:24.235 align:middle line:84% They have prayers in the morning and study hall in the evening. 00:05:24.235 --> 00:05:27.470 align:middle line:90% 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:29.620 align:middle line:90% "Oh, where a rabble babbled. 00:05:29.620 --> 00:05:36.400 align:middle line:84% Oh, if they'd stared and adored crying, look, hush. 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:39.160 align:middle line:90% He has come. 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:41.620 align:middle line:90% Nobody cried. 00:05:41.620 --> 00:05:44.260 align:middle line:84% Some touched the bright boy returning 00:05:44.260 --> 00:05:47.440 align:middle line:90% as blessed for having him home. 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:54.190 align:middle line:84% Who smiled and said, if he took no joy of journeying, 00:05:54.190 --> 00:05:58.240 align:middle line:90% let him make his kingdom come. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.310 align:middle line:90% That's the area for him. 00:06:00.310 --> 00:06:02.290 align:middle line:90% That's the thing to do. 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:04.290 align:middle line:90% That's the answer."