WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.050 --> 00:00:09.030 align:middle line:84% So these go back in time towards the Greco Roman figures 00:00:09.030 --> 00:00:11.220 align:middle line:84% who are part of the repertoire of most 00:00:11.220 --> 00:00:14.370 align:middle line:84% transsexual autobiographies written in the 1950s, 00:00:14.370 --> 00:00:17.160 align:middle line:90% through to nowish. 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:19.980 align:middle line:84% And so, there is a little bit of Tiresias in here. 00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:22.950 align:middle line:90% "Up Close, Personal, Again." 00:00:22.950 --> 00:00:27.360 align:middle line:84% "Mythology is cheap as foil, for soulful 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:31.320 align:middle line:84% at a time when it is not souls we are looking forward to. 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.710 align:middle line:84% I can't pretend to know the first thing about your age. 00:00:34.710 --> 00:00:36.450 align:middle line:84% I would never do that to a woman, 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:38.730 align:middle line:90% having been for seven years. 00:00:38.730 --> 00:00:42.060 align:middle line:84% But what awry I find extraordinary is the fuss. 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:46.380 align:middle line:84% I suppose there was a time before snakes, before Oedipus. 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:49.800 align:middle line:84% I suppose knowledge used to come in a different wrapper, 00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:52.800 align:middle line:84% another hanger of the airport, perhaps devoted 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:57.360 align:middle line:84% to an exotic, recently decolonised and southern state. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:00.600 align:middle line:84% Great beaches with palms of Paris. 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:04.440 align:middle line:84% Your favorite color green, and the women swanning in heels 00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:07.440 align:middle line:90% so high like they were born to. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:10.230 align:middle line:84% Have you ever considered I might have forgotten? 00:01:10.230 --> 00:01:12.450 align:middle line:90% I might have preferred? 00:01:12.450 --> 00:01:14.910 align:middle line:84% I might have preferred to be forgotten. 00:01:14.910 --> 00:01:16.560 align:middle line:90% Think of my family. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.460 align:middle line:84% Cassandra's belly swelling with unwanted futures. 00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:25.680 align:middle line:84% And what is it to live past everyone you've held dear? 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.350 align:middle line:84% I could be vain's contingency in blue, 00:01:28.350 --> 00:01:30.630 align:middle line:90% a vanity of the television era. 00:01:30.630 --> 00:01:33.840 align:middle line:84% A lovely young girl, just imagining, 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.900 align:middle line:84% beginning to imagine another one's caress. 00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:38.850 align:middle line:90% Blank depths to come. 00:01:38.850 --> 00:01:41.010 align:middle line:90% I am tired through. 00:01:41.010 --> 00:01:45.960 align:middle line:84% I have fessed fast into wound, and no other to dream toward. 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:47.520 align:middle line:90% So that's me. 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:49.050 align:middle line:90% How do you do? 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:50.010 align:middle line:90% No? 00:01:50.010 --> 00:01:55.840 align:middle line:84% So how do you do narrate the end of the world? 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:56.610 align:middle line:90% No? 00:01:56.610 --> 00:01:58.950 align:middle line:90% So how are you? 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:02.400 align:middle line:84% I'm asking because I'm interested. 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.400 align:middle line:84% In the air, there are different sounds. 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:08.639 align:middle line:84% Below the Earth, a new mineral, is what you are. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:13.590 align:middle line:90% Go ahead, open a maw or caw. 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:16.530 align:middle line:84% If you have one, open a maw or caw. 00:02:16.530 --> 00:02:19.340 align:middle line:90% Tell me about our end."