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OK.

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Well that's unfortunately
the end of your part.

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And I shall now
read a few sections

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from a book called The
Beauty of The Husband.

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A fictional essay in 29 tangos.

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This is an essay tells
the story of a marriage.

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It's also a little bit
about Keats and Keats' idea

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that beauty is truth as he said.

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And it contains two
characters, a husband

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who is called the husband and
a wife who is called the wife.

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There's also a friend of the
husband and wife named Raymond.

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I'm not sure if he
comes in this part.

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They call him Ray.

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The husband is somebody
who's interested in games

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of all kinds,
especially war games.

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And each of these tangos has
a somewhat lengthy title.

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So the first thing
you hear is the title.

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"Tango seven: But to honor
truth which is smooth,

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divine, and lives among the
gods we must with Plato dance

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lying which lives down
below amid the mass of men

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both tragic and rough."

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"All myth is an
enriched pattern,

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a two-faced proposition allowing
its operator to say one thing

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and mean another to
lead a double life.

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Hence the notion found
early in ancient thought

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that all poets are liars.

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And from the true lies
of poetry trickled

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out a question, what really
connects words and things?

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Not much decided my
husband and proceeded

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to use language in the way
that Homer says the gods do.

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All human words are
known to the gods

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but have for them
entirely other meanings

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alongside our meanings.

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Gods flip the switch at will.

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My husband lied
about everything.

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Money, meetings, mistresses,
the birthplace of his parents,

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the store where
he bought shirts,

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the spelling of his own name.

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He lied when it was
not necessary to lie,

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he lied when it wasn't
even convenient,

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he lied when he knew
they knew he was lying,

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he lied when it broke their
hearts, my heart, her heart.

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I often wonder what happened
to her, the first one.

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There is something
pure edged and burning

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about the first
infidelity in a marriage.

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Taxis back and
forth, tears, cracks

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in the wall where it gets
hit, lights on late at night.

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I cannot live without her,
her this word that explodes.

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Lights still on in the morning."

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