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All right, now that the happy
ones are out of the way.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I was going to read
another angry one,

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but I'm getting
tired of being angry.

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We had dessert at dinner and
it's starting to kick in.

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There's a wonderful,
wonderful typo

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in the first edition of this.

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A typo that changes
the meaning of the poem

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entirely and retroactively
changes four or five poems.

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Which I think is pretty cool,
because the one place where

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I didn't want to be funny.

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So there are several
landscapes in the book,

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and they get darker
and the conquerors

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burn everything down and kill
everything and then dig it up

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and yell at it and bury it
again and set everything on fire

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and it's supposed
to say, "We knocked

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the heads off the
statuary, deprive

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the landmarks of
any meaning, victory

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swelling in the occupation.

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History is painted
by the winners.

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Keep your paints wet.

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Trust me, I have things to say."

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And that's not what it says.

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It says, "History is
painted by the winners.

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Keep your pants wet."

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It says it.

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That's what it says.

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It says keep your pants wet.

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Keep your pants wet.

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Trust me, I have things to say.

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You're welcome, hunt
and peck typing.

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All right.

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