WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.630 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.630 --> 00:00:01.500 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:10.270 align:middle line:90% 48 years ago, March 1970. 00:00:10.270 --> 00:00:10.770 align:middle line:90% And-- 00:00:10.770 --> 00:00:11.270 align:middle line:90% Just. 00:00:11.270 --> 00:00:12.960 align:middle line:90% --I think the-- 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:90% How's that? 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:15.190 align:middle line:90% Try this-- better? 00:00:15.190 --> 00:00:15.690 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:15.690 --> 00:00:18.440 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:19.260 align:middle line:90% A long time ago. 00:00:19.260 --> 00:00:20.736 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:20.736 --> 00:00:22.472 align:middle line:90% 00:00:22.472 --> 00:00:24.180 align:middle line:84% The cottage was a very different cottage. 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:25.920 align:middle line:90% It was a real cottage. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:32.009 align:middle line:84% There was a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, and a garden. 00:00:32.009 --> 00:00:35.790 align:middle line:84% And I found out that the night of the reading I 00:00:35.790 --> 00:00:38.470 align:middle line:84% was not to eat with everybody else. 00:00:38.470 --> 00:00:41.490 align:middle line:84% But I had my dinner in the cottage. 00:00:41.490 --> 00:00:46.110 align:middle line:84% And I had a cook who also mixed cocktails for me. 00:00:46.110 --> 00:00:47.970 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:47.970 --> 00:00:51.600 align:middle line:84% So this was very different, I mean, from any reading 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.690 align:middle line:90% that I gave anywhere. 00:00:54.690 --> 00:00:56.520 align:middle line:90% But first I-- 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.760 align:middle line:84% I didn't think much of it, be thinking like, oh, [? I ?] 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:01.150 align:middle line:90% like the British people. 00:01:01.150 --> 00:01:06.360 align:middle line:84% But after a couple of martinis, I changed my mind. 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.290 align:middle line:84% And I think I had a steak, but I don't 00:01:10.290 --> 00:01:13.290 align:middle line:90% remember the details of it. 00:01:13.290 --> 00:01:16.920 align:middle line:84% I'll start with a poem that I'm sure I 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:22.500 align:middle line:84% read that night because it was from a book, my first book that 00:01:22.500 --> 00:01:28.740 align:middle line:90% came out in 1967. 00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:39.990 align:middle line:84% Let's [? see, ?] yeah, 1967, so a lot of years. 00:01:39.990 --> 00:01:40.665 align:middle line:90% "Butcher Shop." 00:01:40.665 --> 00:01:43.460 align:middle line:90% 00:01:43.460 --> 00:01:47.090 align:middle line:84% "Sometimes working late at night, 00:01:47.090 --> 00:01:50.810 align:middle line:84% I stop before the closed butcher shop. 00:01:50.810 --> 00:01:53.030 align:middle line:84% There is a single light in the store, 00:01:53.030 --> 00:01:56.180 align:middle line:84% like the light in which the convict takes his tunnel. 00:01:56.180 --> 00:01:59.130 align:middle line:90% 00:01:59.130 --> 00:02:03.850 align:middle line:84% An apron hangs on the hook, the blood on it smeared 00:02:03.850 --> 00:02:07.120 align:middle line:84% into a map of the great continents of blood, 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.110 align:middle line:84% the great rivers and oceans of blood. 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:15.820 align:middle line:84% There are knives that glitter like holsters in a dark church, 00:02:15.820 --> 00:02:19.570 align:middle line:84% where they bring the cripple and the imbecile to be healed. 00:02:19.570 --> 00:02:22.690 align:middle line:84% There is a wooden block where bones are broken, scraped 00:02:22.690 --> 00:02:24.040 align:middle line:90% clean. 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:28.750 align:middle line:84% The river dries to its bed, but I'm fed where deep in the night 00:02:28.750 --> 00:02:30.660 align:middle line:90% I hear a voice." 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:32.000 align:middle line:90%