WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:07.590 align:middle line:84% So I'm going to read from Not Merely Because of the Unknown 00:00:07.590 --> 00:00:10.260 align:middle line:84% That was Stalking Towards Them for just a little while, 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:11.890 align:middle line:90% before I read new work. 00:00:11.890 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:84% And for those of you who have not seen the book, 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:16.000 align:middle line:90% it's bisected pages. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:18.390 align:middle line:84% So there's a narrative running across all the pages 00:00:18.390 --> 00:00:24.300 align:middle line:84% and then underneath there's a home underground section. 00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:25.890 align:middle line:84% And the home underground is what they 00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:29.850 align:middle line:90% referred to the Lost Boys home. 00:00:29.850 --> 00:00:33.480 align:middle line:84% It was underground and you had to go in through trees. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:36.750 align:middle line:84% So if you were too big, you couldn't go down. 00:00:36.750 --> 00:00:41.970 align:middle line:90% 00:00:41.970 --> 00:00:47.520 align:middle line:84% "If she lays out two spoons, two real spoons, and two forks, two 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.400 align:middle line:84% real forks, will he come then to take part 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:54.420 align:middle line:84% in a meal that is wholly imaginary? 00:00:54.420 --> 00:00:55.920 align:middle line:90% The food was never real. 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.020 align:middle line:90% The food was never really real. 00:00:58.020 --> 00:01:00.300 align:middle line:84% And so to send them to bed without, 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:04.470 align:middle line:84% to send them to bed without a meal, hardly meant anything. 00:01:04.470 --> 00:01:06.990 align:middle line:90% 00:01:06.990 --> 00:01:10.530 align:middle line:84% These things may fit inside a thimble. 00:01:10.530 --> 00:01:13.440 align:middle line:84% A pinch of salt, a few drops of water, 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:15.660 align:middle line:84% the tip of a woman's ring finger. 00:01:15.660 --> 00:01:17.970 align:middle line:84% I will give you a thimble, says Wendy, 00:01:17.970 --> 00:01:19.980 align:middle line:84% I will give you a thimble so you will 00:01:19.980 --> 00:01:21.930 align:middle line:90% know the weight of my heart. 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:25.530 align:middle line:84% A thimble may protect against pricks, pinpricks, 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:28.410 align:middle line:84% needle pricks, tinker pricks, but not hooks. 00:01:28.410 --> 00:01:29.610 align:middle line:90% Never hooks. 00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:31.710 align:middle line:84% When he stabs his hook into you, you 00:01:31.710 --> 00:01:34.930 align:middle line:84% will see that his eyes are the blue of forget me nots. 00:01:34.930 --> 00:01:36.780 align:middle line:90% But that is Hook and not Peter. 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:38.790 align:middle line:90% Peter who will forget you. 00:01:38.790 --> 00:01:42.090 align:middle line:84% Whose eyes are the color of vague memories, the color not 00:01:42.090 --> 00:01:45.000 align:middle line:84% of sky but rather the semblance of sky. 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.900 align:middle line:84% The color of brittle mindedness, of corpse dressings, 00:01:48.900 --> 00:01:51.350 align:middle line:90% of forgetting." 00:01:51.350 --> 00:01:53.000 align:middle line:90%