WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.795 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.795 --> 00:00:02.670 align:middle line:84% Since I can't read the one that makes me cry, 00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:04.462 align:middle line:84% I'll read the one that almost makes me cry. 00:00:04.462 --> 00:00:09.900 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:11.670 align:middle line:84% The book is called War of the Foxes. 00:00:11.670 --> 00:00:15.300 align:middle line:90% And this is a moment of truce. 00:00:15.300 --> 00:00:18.990 align:middle line:90% It's not peace, it's just truce. 00:00:18.990 --> 00:00:22.800 align:middle line:84% That's all the relief you'll get from me is truce. 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:24.330 align:middle line:90% "The Stag and the Quiver." 00:00:24.330 --> 00:00:26.580 align:middle line:90% "One. 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:31.140 align:middle line:84% Once there was a deer called Stag, a white breasted, 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:33.120 align:middle line:90% a many pointed-- 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:36.540 align:middle line:84% he refused to still when he halted. 00:00:36.540 --> 00:00:41.920 align:middle line:84% The hooves in his mind were always lifted. 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.380 align:middle line:90% Everything comes close. 00:00:44.380 --> 00:00:46.990 align:middle line:90% The branch's slide. 00:00:46.990 --> 00:00:53.390 align:middle line:84% In a clearing made of cleavings, Stag sees another stag. 00:00:53.390 --> 00:00:57.380 align:middle line:84% They watch each other, they share no story. 00:00:57.380 --> 00:01:00.100 align:middle line:90% 00:01:00.100 --> 00:01:04.720 align:middle line:84% I will not cross you and you must move on. 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:07.630 align:middle line:90% There is nothing else. 00:01:07.630 --> 00:01:10.750 align:middle line:90% He reminds me of some tale. 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:13.210 align:middle line:90% Stay with me to remember. 00:01:13.210 --> 00:01:18.480 align:middle line:84% It reminds me of where I was going without you. 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:18.980 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.520 align:middle line:90% 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:25.840 align:middle line:84% The hunter sinks his arrows into the trees 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.050 align:middle line:84% and then paints the targets around them. 00:01:30.050 --> 00:01:35.010 align:middle line:84% The trees imagine they are deer, the deer imagine they are safe. 00:01:35.010 --> 00:01:39.890 align:middle line:84% The arrows, they have no imagination. 00:01:39.890 --> 00:01:43.900 align:middle line:84% All night the wind blows through the trees. 00:01:43.900 --> 00:01:46.710 align:middle line:90% It makes a sound. 00:01:46.710 --> 00:01:49.980 align:middle line:84% The hunter's son watches the hunter. 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:53.670 align:middle line:84% The hunter paints more rings on his glasses. 00:01:53.670 --> 00:01:57.150 align:middle line:84% "Everything is a target," says the hunter, 00:01:57.150 --> 00:01:59.970 align:middle line:90% "no matter where you look." 00:01:59.970 --> 00:02:06.180 align:middle line:84% The hunter's son says nothing and closes his eyes. 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:06.680 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.490 align:middle line:90% 00:02:09.490 --> 00:02:14.310 align:middle line:84% The hunter's son watches the stag. 00:02:14.310 --> 00:02:18.690 align:middle line:90% Clench is a hand word. 00:02:18.690 --> 00:02:20.880 align:middle line:90% His hand is clenched. 00:02:20.880 --> 00:02:26.040 align:middle line:84% Door with a bad hinge, it wouldn't open. 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:29.940 align:middle line:84% Do not let go of the arrow, let it slip through your fingers 00:02:29.940 --> 00:02:32.710 align:middle line:90% as you relax your grip. 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:36.450 align:middle line:84% This is good advice, he couldn't do it. 00:02:36.450 --> 00:02:40.500 align:middle line:84% There is no way to get to the future from here. 00:02:40.500 --> 00:02:43.360 align:middle line:90% 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:47.020 align:middle line:84% The key to archery is sustained attention. 00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:50.110 align:middle line:84% An arrow is a stick with feathers, 00:02:50.110 --> 00:02:53.020 align:middle line:90% an extension of the mind. 00:02:53.020 --> 00:02:58.240 align:middle line:84% Men and their thoughts, their quivers and their arrows. 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:04.910 align:middle line:84% It helps to see how these things move and where they land. 00:03:04.910 --> 00:03:09.450 align:middle line:84% The stag watches the hunter's son. 00:03:09.450 --> 00:03:11.990 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:03:11.990 --> 00:03:17.840 align:middle line:84% This is a story of loops, at least one. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.850 align:middle line:90% I stepped off the loop. 00:03:19.850 --> 00:03:24.560 align:middle line:84% I spent time listening, testing realms. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.380 align:middle line:84% I snapped a twig in my head and struck out. 00:03:27.380 --> 00:03:30.110 align:middle line:90% 00:03:30.110 --> 00:03:33.770 align:middle line:84% You know what it's like to be alone-- 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:35.600 align:middle line:90% gimlets and vermicide? 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:38.730 align:middle line:90% 00:03:38.730 --> 00:03:44.170 align:middle line:84% Do you know what it's like to be alive, so forgiveness? 00:03:44.170 --> 00:03:47.630 align:middle line:90% 00:03:47.630 --> 00:03:52.595 align:middle line:84% All night the trees stand silent in the dark, not touching. 00:03:52.595 --> 00:03:57.240 align:middle line:90% 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:02.610 align:middle line:84% I put on the dear suit, I turned my ears in all directions. 00:04:02.610 --> 00:04:05.550 align:middle line:90% I'll live alone or in between. 00:04:05.550 --> 00:04:09.120 align:middle line:84% This is the testimony of the dear-- 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:15.660 align:middle line:84% solitude, the long corridors, love from a distance. 00:04:15.660 --> 00:04:19.440 align:middle line:84% You asked me once what are we made of? 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:23.890 align:middle line:84% Well, these are the things we're made of. 00:04:23.890 --> 00:04:30.160 align:middle line:84% One house, two house, the road goes away from here." 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.860 align:middle line:90% 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:33.510 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:04:33.510 --> 00:04:34.320 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Annie. 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:36.350 align:middle line:90% Thank you, all.