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You don't have to do that.

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I enjoy this.

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OK.

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Now secondly, I
would like to read

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to you a few selections from the
first thing that I ever wrote.

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This is a collection called
''short talks'' and short

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talks--

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a short talk is a
one minute lecture

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on this or that subject.

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And I feel I invented
this form and I did so

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when I was teaching at
Princeton in the '80s.

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If you've ever
been to Princeton,

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you will know why
there was a need

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for the invention of such poem.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Short talk on homo sapiens"

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"With small cuts cro-magnon
man recorded the moon's phases

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on the handles of his
tools, thinking about her

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as he worked.

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Animals, horizon, face
in a pan of water.

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In every story I tell
comes a point where

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I can see no further.

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I hate that point.

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It is why they call
storytellers blind.

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It is a taunt."

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