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I'm going to read one
more, because I've

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got a couple of minutes.

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This is called "Aria."

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It mentions the German
filmmaker, Fassbinder.

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"I can't remember the name,
the movie by Fassbinder,

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in which a homely woman eats
breakfast, reads the paper,

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cleans up, in one long scene
of maybe 30 minutes, one

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of those women you
pass by in the grocery

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and wish the world
were a fairer place.

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But she was stark naked.

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And I couldn't take
my eyes off her body.

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While others fall
away, such beauty

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stays in the mind,
one part marred,

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nine parts whatever symmetry and
variation adheres to the whole.

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Even the soul has
them, Those dark

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spots you see in
x-rays the technician

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leans in and squints,
unsure whether they're

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signatures of your
death or irregularities.

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Or he simply doesn't
know how to read them.

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It takes a careful
attentiveness.

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That black veiled
woman we used to see

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walking near the university
after sunset, half

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her face a dark purple mask.

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Once a celebrated singer,
that aria unwinding

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from an old recording,
so scratched

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you can't tell whether you're
listening to song or scream."

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Thank you.

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[AUDIENCE APPLAUDS]

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