Sally?
Please, say what the new prohibitions are after the--
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
Not to ever do a sequence again, I'm
not going to ever do a sequence again, be through
with sequence.
So that's one of them.
I just got off track from my other--
what I started out with this book was not really even,
I mean, aside from the prohibition
don't write in imabic pentameter,
and don't write in 14 lines, and that kind of thing.
I also had a longing, having to pare down the surfaces so much
of Kyrie to try to approximate speech.
I really wanted to do something excessive.
And I think I did that.
So whatever new permission or new thing
has something to do with the excess.
I can't, I can't say beyond that what it is.
I don't know yet what it is.
It always takes me a long time between books to get
one thing out of my head.
You too?
Yeah?
There's time for one more question.
Yeah.
I've got a stupid question for you.
Good.
I like those.
I can give a stupid answer.
[LAUGHS]
I was just jotting some notes down during your reading
and jotting few lines down.
I've got a couple here for you.
In 15 years, you couldn't lift a stick,
and then, later, you talked about your father,
in that case.
And then, later, you talked about young boys
at the playground, and you say "rowdy people with their little
"sticks."
And so here's the stupid question, which
might sound totally off-base.
What was your take on the State of the Union Address?
[LAUGHING]
I was, thankfully, spared.
I was on an airplane.
And so I didn't have to listen to it.
And I regrettably feel that our current president is a bully.
And the language, the rhetoric of bullying, is in the air
all around us.
And I think the more that we are afraid,
the more we respond by that darn rhetoric.
And alas, I think, action is going to follow it.
That's my view of where we are right now.
I didn't hear what he actually said.
I imagine somebody wrote him a pretty clever speech.
[LAUGHING]
OK?
[APPLAUSE]