WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:90% This is what I'm working on. 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:12.440 align:middle line:84% I'm working on exercises in definition. 00:00:12.440 --> 00:00:15.290 align:middle line:84% One of my friends who's a composer 00:00:15.290 --> 00:00:18.740 align:middle line:90% says, I'm cutting to the bone. 00:00:18.740 --> 00:00:21.500 align:middle line:90% Poetry cut to the bone. 00:00:21.500 --> 00:00:25.850 align:middle line:84% Well, I seem to be tidy with everything 00:00:25.850 --> 00:00:31.910 align:middle line:84% except where I put my poetry that I'm working on. 00:00:31.910 --> 00:00:34.760 align:middle line:84% But I gathered a number of these definitions 00:00:34.760 --> 00:00:39.840 align:middle line:84% and put them together so I can read them one after the other. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:45.470 align:middle line:84% And I'll tell you right now that Jack's favorite one 00:00:45.470 --> 00:00:49.430 align:middle line:84% and another one he goes telling everybody and the one I 00:00:49.430 --> 00:00:54.745 align:middle line:84% tell you this in advance so you can preview [INAUDIBLE] the one 00:00:54.745 --> 00:00:56.250 align:middle line:90% on time. 00:00:56.250 --> 00:00:58.280 align:middle line:84% And the reason he is so particularly 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.430 align:middle line:84% interested in this one on time is because-- well, he's 00:01:01.430 --> 00:01:03.050 align:middle line:90% a scientist. 00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:08.300 align:middle line:84% And he was some years ago the first civilian 00:01:08.300 --> 00:01:09.470 align:middle line:90% to head Oak Ridge. 00:01:09.470 --> 00:01:12.360 align:middle line:84% He's a physicist and expert in nuclear power. 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:15.710 align:middle line:84% And when he was there, there was some other great, great 00:01:15.710 --> 00:01:20.270 align:middle line:84% scientist named I don't remember who came and said, 00:01:20.270 --> 00:01:22.700 align:middle line:90% well, you're all so smart. 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:24.320 align:middle line:90% What's time? 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:25.960 align:middle line:90% Give me a definition. 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:27.830 align:middle line:90% And no one could define time. 00:01:27.830 --> 00:01:31.370 align:middle line:84% The scientists on their own set for this test could not define. 00:01:31.370 --> 00:01:35.912 align:middle line:84% Well, so far, Jack's favorite is mine, which I've always loved. 00:01:35.912 --> 00:01:38.120 align:middle line:84% And so when we come to that-- and the other one which 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.620 align:middle line:84% I found out I didn't know that I just overheard him tell me, 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:44.280 align:middle line:84% what do you think Bruce said about what man is. 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.240 align:middle line:84% So you just get that or cut to the bone. 00:01:47.240 --> 00:01:49.040 align:middle line:84% And these just some-- maybe you're 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.050 align:middle line:84% just lucky I didn't find more of them. 00:01:52.050 --> 00:01:54.500 align:middle line:90% This is "Big." 00:01:54.500 --> 00:01:56.210 align:middle line:90% "What is big? 00:01:56.210 --> 00:01:58.550 align:middle line:84% A breakable bravado and necessity. 00:01:58.550 --> 00:02:01.430 align:middle line:90% A lizard to a mite. 00:02:01.430 --> 00:02:04.610 align:middle line:84% A leaf is a madrigal held in place. 00:02:04.610 --> 00:02:08.930 align:middle line:90% Listen, spring, a golden gurgle. 00:02:08.930 --> 00:02:12.670 align:middle line:84% And time, a ladder from nowhere to nowhere 00:02:12.670 --> 00:02:14.425 align:middle line:90% with somewhere in between. 00:02:14.425 --> 00:02:17.790 align:middle line:90% 00:02:17.790 --> 00:02:20.250 align:middle line:90% Pause for the universe. 00:02:20.250 --> 00:02:23.760 align:middle line:84% The universe exploded as the original independence 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:27.120 align:middle line:84% from nothingness who was born reaching 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.600 align:middle line:90% for a non-existent violet. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:34.620 align:middle line:84% Whatever there is of it, it is the stretchiest 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:40.430 align:middle line:84% and it still is reaching for the non-existent violet. 00:02:40.430 --> 00:02:43.220 align:middle line:84% Death is the dust in the universe. 00:02:43.220 --> 00:02:45.650 align:middle line:90% It says it is the violet. 00:02:45.650 --> 00:02:49.350 align:middle line:90% Man and excitement. 00:02:49.350 --> 00:02:52.740 align:middle line:84% Patience is the lizard ready to snatch. 00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:56.470 align:middle line:90% And power is making it happen. 00:02:56.470 --> 00:02:57.630 align:middle line:90% What is the it?" 00:02:57.630 --> 00:03:02.620 align:middle line:90% 00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:06.113 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:06.113 --> 00:03:20.120 align:middle line:90% 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:22.250 align:middle line:90% May I say one thing more? 00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:26.230 align:middle line:84% I am so disappointed at the weather 00:03:26.230 --> 00:03:33.850 align:middle line:84% because I had hoped to have you all, well, kind of visit me. 00:03:33.850 --> 00:03:37.660 align:middle line:84% That I do wish to say that after the reception, if anyone 00:03:37.660 --> 00:03:40.962 align:middle line:84% wants to come to the poet's house, I'm going to be there. 00:03:40.962 --> 00:03:41.920 align:middle line:90% And it's not very big-- 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:43.720 align:middle line:84% if anybody wants to see how we all live, 00:03:43.720 --> 00:03:46.600 align:middle line:84% who hasn't, I'm going right back from the reception 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:49.090 align:middle line:90% and anybody can come. 00:03:49.090 --> 00:03:51.190 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:51.190 --> 00:03:53.290 align:middle line:90% 00:03:53.290 --> 00:03:55.140 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:03:55.140 --> 00:04:17.000 align:middle line:90%