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Thank you, Sheldon.

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First of all, as in a scientific
lecture, the apologies.

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I'm a genuine Czech with not
enough experience actually.

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I never learned-- I had never
formal schooling in English.

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I find it very easy
to read in English,

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but it may be very difficult
for you to understand.

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So whenever you are
completely lost,

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you may just raise your
hand and ask, what was it,

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and correct my pronunciation.

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Anyway, just this
afternoon we spoke

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about listening to poetry
in the native language.

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And in my deep, deepest
feelings and knowledge,

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nobody, even in the
native language,

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gets everything
from poet's reading.

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And the most of the pleasures
of listening to poetry reading

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is to understand at
least 10% and 20%,

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and the real understanding is
the greatest aesthetic pleasure

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of it.

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So you may count on this 20%.

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I usually read about
18 poems because it

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gives the user 45 minutes, but
liking it here in Tucson--

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the landscape, the city, and the
people so much, so I thought,

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I'll make it 19.

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Now, I have about 22, which
is, of course, a dark menace.

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But I usually am able to
watch the audience and I

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read only to the
point when about 20%--

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not over 20% are asleep.

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Then I more or less
stop or make it shorter.

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Just for you to
adapt to my, as it

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was labeled in Canada,
idiosyncratic English,

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I will read first two very
simple childish poems.

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The first one, both
in English and Czech

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to show how close it is.

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The first is "Clowns."

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You may read it also "poets."

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"Clowns."

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"Where do clowns go?

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What to do clowns eat?

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Where do clowns sleep?

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What do clowns do when nobody,
just nobody laughs anymore,

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Mummy?

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Šaškové

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„Kam chodí šaškové?

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Co jedí šaškové?

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Kde spí šaškové?

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Co dělají šaškové,

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když už se nikdo,

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ale vůbec nikdo nesměje, mami?“

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At least the
"mommy" is the same.

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