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What is this one that I
wanted to read to you?

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Now see, too many views.

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Now I read this in English.

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It's called, "Letter
to an exile."

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When I was a young girl,
I read the Odyssey.

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And then I loved the Odyssey.

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But then I couldn't
believe that Penelope was

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so stupid as to wait so long.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So I decided to
write this letter.

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It's called, "Letter
to an exile."

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It says, "My dear Odysseus,
it is no longer possible,

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my husband, that time goes
flying by without my telling

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you of my life in Ithaca.

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Many years have gone
by since you left.

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Your absence weighs
on your son and me.

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My suitors began to fence me in.

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There were so many and so
tenacious in their flattery,

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that the gods, taking
pity on my anguish,

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advised me to weave a subtle,
interminable cloth that

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would serve as your shroud.

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If I finish it, I will have to
choose a husband without delay.

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The idea captivated me.

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At sunrise, I set about
weaving, and I even

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wove during the night.

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That went on for three years.

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But now, Odysseus,
my heart yearns

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for a youth as handsome as you
when young, as expert with bow

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and lance.

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Our house is in
ruins, and I need

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a man who knows how to rule it.

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Telemachus is but a babe,
and your father decrepit.

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It is preferable, Odysseus,
that you don't return.

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Of my love for you,
not even embers remain.

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Telemachus is well.

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He never asks for his father.

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It would be better if
we gave you up for dead.

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I know from strangers
about Calypso and Circe.

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Seize your chance, Odysseus.

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If you choose Calypso,
you'll regain lost youth.

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If Circe is the chosen
one, among her swine,

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you reign supreme.

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I hope this letter
does not offend you.

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Don't invoke the gods.

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It will be in vain.

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Remember Menelaus and his Helen.

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For that mad war, our best
men have lost their lives,

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and you are where you are.

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Don't return,
Odysseus, I beg you.

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Your discreet Penelope.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Ah.

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Thank you.

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