WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.310 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.310 --> 00:00:06.780 align:middle line:84% So I'm going to read the rest of the time from Register of-- 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:09.270 align:middle line:84% actually changed the title a couple of weeks ago. 00:00:09.270 --> 00:00:14.340 align:middle line:84% It's now called "Register of Illuminated Villages." 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:18.960 align:middle line:84% Part of that is because I'm sort of prone to catastrophe. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.390 align:middle line:84% I'm a clumsy person on top of being sort of like a very, 00:00:24.390 --> 00:00:26.910 align:middle line:84% I guess like, cynical person in some ways. 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:28.950 align:middle line:84% But I realized recently that I'm actually 00:00:28.950 --> 00:00:30.300 align:middle line:90% kind of an eternal optimist. 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:33.630 align:middle line:84% I think you have to be in some ways to be a poet. 00:00:33.630 --> 00:00:38.040 align:middle line:84% So anyway it got me thinking about illumination-- 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:40.050 align:middle line:84% it just kind of got me thinking about the things 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:45.375 align:middle line:84% that we are afraid of that are dark, that we don't necessarily 00:00:45.375 --> 00:00:47.500 align:middle line:84% hold up to the light because we're ashamed of them. 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:50.340 align:middle line:84% So the book, I did this complete overhaul and the book 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:52.530 align:middle line:84% has these seven different movements 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:55.230 align:middle line:84% that all begin with a different hidden village. 00:00:55.230 --> 00:00:58.410 align:middle line:84% So I'm going to read one of the movements. 00:00:58.410 --> 00:01:02.840 align:middle line:84% And this begins with, "In the Hidden Village of the Past." 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.940 align:middle line:84% "There's a scar on your right shoulder 00:01:04.940 --> 00:01:07.490 align:middle line:84% when a smothered kiss of laughter used to be. 00:01:07.490 --> 00:01:09.530 align:middle line:84% There's this cutout of shadow where 00:01:09.530 --> 00:01:13.550 align:middle line:84% the booted footsteps of your own poltergeists once trampled. 00:01:13.550 --> 00:01:16.910 align:middle line:84% There was a time each jump on a trampoline took years, 00:01:16.910 --> 00:01:19.700 align:middle line:84% and now your mouth pries open so someone 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:23.120 align:middle line:84% can poke at the enamel of your teeth abraded by smoke, 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:27.470 align:middle line:84% powdered donuts, or a fist that finally hit its mark. 00:01:27.470 --> 00:01:29.300 align:middle line:84% You keep asking for more time and when 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:30.950 align:middle line:90% it rings you silence it. 00:01:30.950 --> 00:01:33.740 align:middle line:84% You keep saying you'll make time when it's the only thing you 00:01:33.740 --> 00:01:34.370 align:middle line:90% can't. 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:36.470 align:middle line:84% So instead you make skillets to make 00:01:36.470 --> 00:01:39.500 align:middle line:84% all manner of vittles, a handheld brain 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:41.270 align:middle line:90% with a finger sensitive screen. 00:01:41.270 --> 00:01:44.450 align:middle line:84% This woven blanket, the color of cream. 00:01:44.450 --> 00:01:47.540 align:middle line:84% Used to sleep beneath it nightly to dream away loss. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:51.290 align:middle line:84% You keep saying the past stops the world from killing itself, 00:01:51.290 --> 00:01:53.660 align:middle line:84% but forget you're the one who threw yourself 00:01:53.660 --> 00:01:56.900 align:middle line:84% in front of your own spears, and then thumbed prayer 00:01:56.900 --> 00:01:58.700 align:middle line:90% beads with your grieving. 00:01:58.700 --> 00:02:02.240 align:middle line:84% You're saying, don't you see I am a [? muktijoddha ?] of bones 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:05.240 align:middle line:84% wearing a high nippled, cocoa-thighed, hip-swinging 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:08.780 align:middle line:84% breastplate of fortitude, so sleek and so on fleek 00:02:08.780 --> 00:02:10.820 align:middle line:84% you can't help but want to stroke it? 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:11.690 align:middle line:90% You're right. 00:02:11.690 --> 00:02:12.620 align:middle line:90% You look good. 00:02:12.620 --> 00:02:14.700 align:middle line:84% And it's everything, this moment, 00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:17.600 align:middle line:84% waiting for them, standing against the battlefield 00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:20.840 align:middle line:84% of yourself in front of this open window. 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.960 align:middle line:84% You turned to them with a convergence of your futures 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:27.770 align:middle line:84% still resting lightly on the pine cone handles of the willow 00:02:27.770 --> 00:02:32.060 align:middle line:84% branch you snapped in half to sharpen into twin daggers. 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:35.990 align:middle line:84% You play war, so you can play love, so you can play war, 00:02:35.990 --> 00:02:39.320 align:middle line:84% so you can play love, so you can play. 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:42.200 align:middle line:84% Don't be afraid to show them each secret passage 00:02:42.200 --> 00:02:44.000 align:middle line:90% through those abandoned houses. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.850 align:middle line:84% Don't forget it takes this long so fast. 00:02:46.850 --> 00:02:49.400 align:middle line:84% You knew exactly when and who you 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:54.010 align:middle line:84% were the night you dared yourself to find a way out." 00:02:54.010 --> 00:02:55.000 align:middle line:90%