Thank you very much, Caleb.
That was great.
I've never been introduced to that effect before
in a great way.
You've made it so that probably the next time I
have to listen to an introduction,
I'll be like, oh, man.
There's no hype man references in here.
Why isn't this person talking about Flavor Flav?
And now it's got me thinking about biological hype people
or hype creatures.
I'm sure there are some kind of zoological practices
that seem like weird little finch that
eats bugs off a rhinoceros back, like a hype man.
Are those sort of like--
or are there like kind of weird dawn chorus things,
where like a bird will sort of pay like a--
well, sort of like riff on another birds thing,
but also kind of like back it up a little bit.
So it's got like a--
I'm going to go home and I'm going
to see if I can find anything.
And I'm not going to credit you if I write an essay.
But no, I'm just kidding.
But, yeah, there's got to be some kind of slingshotting
that happens there.
Nature has its own Flavor Flav other than Flav himself,
who is supernatural, I would say.
Anyway, thank you so much.
And what a pleasure to be here today
at this incredible building, this incredible center
with its history, and among such great writers and instructors.
I also am so very honored to be reading
with Mr. David Shields, who I've been reading the entire time.
I've been thinking about what it would
be like to be an essayist.
And so if you would have told me like five years ago
that we would be reading together,
I would've been like--
Actually, when Ander told me that we
were going to be reading together, I was kind of like--
and that was like months ago.
Also, though, Ander was telling me something,
I was kind of like--
Basically, I just make raspberries all day.
That's my professional-- anyway.
So a long story short too late, what a thrill to be here.
And I'm really looking forward to speaking to the students
tomorrow in a couple of events.