WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.750 --> 00:00:08.500 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Joshua. 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:11.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.050 --> 00:00:15.710 align:middle line:84% Thanks, Laynie Thank you to the Poetry Center. 00:00:15.710 --> 00:00:21.990 align:middle line:84% I'm going to begin my reading by reading a little bit from Stacy 00:00:21.990 --> 00:00:26.040 align:middle line:90% Doris's Book, Conference. 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:27.370 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:27.370 --> 00:00:33.510 align:middle line:84% A tremendous, amazing poet has left this world. 00:00:33.510 --> 00:00:37.200 align:middle line:84% So a little bit at towards the end of this passage 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.980 align:middle line:84% you'll notice that I say the word drabs, which 00:00:40.980 --> 00:00:42.480 align:middle line:90% is part of Stacy's text. 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.960 align:middle line:90% And drabs is birds backward. 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:47.460 align:middle line:90% Right? 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:51.180 align:middle line:84% Another anagram of this would be bard, et cetera. 00:00:51.180 --> 00:00:59.220 align:middle line:84% This kind, this echelon of word game 00:00:59.220 --> 00:01:03.780 align:middle line:84% that is extremely high level conceptual 00:01:03.780 --> 00:01:06.720 align:middle line:84% is played throughout this book, which 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:12.450 align:middle line:84% is named after a Conference of the Birds, an Arabic poem that 00:01:12.450 --> 00:01:17.310 align:middle line:84% was translated by Chaucer whose pieces of his translation 00:01:17.310 --> 00:01:19.620 align:middle line:90% are in here. 00:01:19.620 --> 00:01:21.450 align:middle line:90% So I begin in mid-episode. 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:24.270 align:middle line:84% "Children are birds, magnificent cartwheeling. 00:01:24.270 --> 00:01:28.380 align:middle line:84% Singer, dangerous spinner, going back where I came from. 00:01:28.380 --> 00:01:30.000 align:middle line:90% Had more than I can stand. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.840 align:middle line:84% I'm flying home, everything going to be all right. 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:38.640 align:middle line:84% At the stadium, women or birds se se se. 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.540 align:middle line:90% Se se se se -Seko Se se se Seko. 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:48.690 align:middle line:90% At the stadium, 100,000 seats. 00:01:48.690 --> 00:01:53.040 align:middle line:84% Over 1,000 prisoners, 100 are randomly killed. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.170 align:middle line:90% The people or birds. 00:01:55.170 --> 00:01:56.790 align:middle line:90% Ali, Bomboyeh. 00:01:56.790 --> 00:01:58.710 align:middle line:90% ali, Bomboyeh. 00:01:58.710 --> 00:02:00.060 align:middle line:90% Ali, Bomboyeh. 00:02:00.060 --> 00:02:02.850 align:middle line:90% Puppet, (Mohammed), the prophet: 00:02:02.850 --> 00:02:04.410 align:middle line:90% I'm tired. 00:02:04.410 --> 00:02:06.420 align:middle line:90% I'm going to my room. 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:08.220 align:middle line:90% I'll see you all later. 00:02:08.220 --> 00:02:12.720 align:middle line:84% Singer/Danger (King): we fused into one entity. 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:16.890 align:middle line:84% Singer/Danger (to be): Do it to death. 00:02:16.890 --> 00:02:18.420 align:middle line:90% Song. 00:02:18.420 --> 00:02:21.960 align:middle line:90% We're going to take you higher. 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:25.440 align:middle line:90% We're going to take it higher. 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:26.310 align:middle line:90% Puppet. 00:02:26.310 --> 00:02:27.450 align:middle line:90% Mohammed. 00:02:27.450 --> 00:02:29.680 align:middle line:90% I got my people's freedom. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.200 align:middle line:90% I'm not afraid. 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:33.480 align:middle line:90% I walk right into it. 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:37.200 align:middle line:84% At the stadium, on a floor below the floor, 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:39.990 align:middle line:84% the blood of gladiators unstopping. 00:02:39.990 --> 00:02:41.940 align:middle line:90% Puppet, Mohammed.. 00:02:41.940 --> 00:02:43.500 align:middle line:90% Come get me sucker. 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:44.670 align:middle line:90% I'm dancing. 00:02:44.670 --> 00:02:45.420 align:middle line:90% Puppet. 00:02:45.420 --> 00:02:46.500 align:middle line:90% Mohammed.. 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:49.950 align:middle line:90% Me, we. 00:02:49.950 --> 00:02:51.480 align:middle line:90% I'll take you there. 00:02:51.480 --> 00:02:53.070 align:middle line:90% Glide of darkness to light. 00:02:53.070 --> 00:02:54.960 align:middle line:90% Glide on extra teeth or lips. 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.510 align:middle line:84% Glide death where thoughts separate from thinking, 00:02:57.510 --> 00:03:00.540 align:middle line:84% leave thinking behind in order to get there. 00:03:00.540 --> 00:03:03.990 align:middle line:84% Because logic blossoms into flesh, eschew it. 00:03:03.990 --> 00:03:08.820 align:middle line:84% Because feeling is better than seeing or being let go. 00:03:08.820 --> 00:03:11.610 align:middle line:90% First, take a bath. 00:03:11.610 --> 00:03:13.320 align:middle line:90% Remember, don't think. 00:03:13.320 --> 00:03:14.220 align:middle line:90% Reflect. 00:03:14.220 --> 00:03:15.990 align:middle line:90% There's nothing to learn. 00:03:15.990 --> 00:03:17.580 align:middle line:90% Learn nothing. 00:03:17.580 --> 00:03:19.320 align:middle line:90% Dissolve. 00:03:19.320 --> 00:03:20.220 align:middle line:90% Try this. 00:03:20.220 --> 00:03:21.660 align:middle line:90% Take a body. 00:03:21.660 --> 00:03:24.180 align:middle line:84% Now subtract its physical properties. 00:03:24.180 --> 00:03:29.230 align:middle line:84% Now subtract its depth, its width, then length. 00:03:29.230 --> 00:03:32.280 align:middle line:84% What's left is a place it took up. 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:34.440 align:middle line:90% Subtract the place. 00:03:34.440 --> 00:03:36.780 align:middle line:84% And you get an object of reflection. 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:40.050 align:middle line:84% Now throw yourself, dive into its grandeur, 00:03:40.050 --> 00:03:42.630 align:middle line:84% the gaping immensity of intuitive seeing 00:03:42.630 --> 00:03:44.460 align:middle line:90% of universal matter. 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:47.280 align:middle line:84% The face, the gestures, the seat of matter 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.880 align:middle line:84% should be shown rather than perceived. 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:56.130 align:middle line:84% It is subtracted from space, beyond time and thinking. 00:03:56.130 --> 00:03:59.790 align:middle line:84% Having launched your parts going on you notice what is not. 00:03:59.790 --> 00:04:01.470 align:middle line:90% Where it isn't. 00:04:01.470 --> 00:04:04.470 align:middle line:84% A light in the place without names. 00:04:04.470 --> 00:04:07.800 align:middle line:84% The place without names is no place. 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:09.600 align:middle line:90% Belong there now. 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:11.304 align:middle line:90% Reflect. 00:04:11.304 --> 00:04:13.950 align:middle line:84% Reflect on yourself to reflect me. 00:04:13.950 --> 00:04:16.380 align:middle line:84% Notice neither place nor distance, 00:04:16.380 --> 00:04:18.149 align:middle line:90% but the place of distance. 00:04:18.149 --> 00:04:21.870 align:middle line:84% Bash in the thing that is everything by never letting 00:04:21.870 --> 00:04:24.600 align:middle line:84% go of what is until at its summit 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.840 align:middle line:84% in the stranglehold gripped of itself, you shatter, 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:29.340 align:middle line:90% reflecting. 00:04:29.340 --> 00:04:31.530 align:middle line:90% Jump out of your mouth. 00:04:31.530 --> 00:04:34.890 align:middle line:84% Hypnosis is the only form of respect. 00:04:34.890 --> 00:04:37.680 align:middle line:90% Generations, pneumatic. 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.490 align:middle line:90% And I'm a perfect sphere. 00:04:41.490 --> 00:04:43.920 align:middle line:84% They suspected love but weren't sure 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:48.510 align:middle line:84% because they couldn't imagine its form. 00:04:48.510 --> 00:04:53.460 align:middle line:84% That is or is based on human frailty. 00:04:53.460 --> 00:04:56.100 align:middle line:90% With drab the same. 00:04:56.100 --> 00:05:01.020 align:middle line:84% A bird is visible as passage but imagined always frozen. 00:05:01.020 --> 00:05:04.860 align:middle line:84% I would go to the movie in better than with you. 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:09.750 align:middle line:84% Wind is direction and all the instructions you're allowed. 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:11.310 align:middle line:90% Follow. 00:05:11.310 --> 00:05:14.070 align:middle line:90% The face gone, generation. 00:05:14.070 --> 00:05:17.980 align:middle line:84% From lugging around, perceptions become forms. 00:05:17.980 --> 00:05:24.460 align:middle line:84% Thus, out of drab, are called love and vise versa. 00:05:24.460 --> 00:05:28.230 align:middle line:90% Flight is letting happen." 00:05:28.230 --> 00:05:29.000 align:middle line:90%