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Architect one.

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So I'm going to stop the screen
share because there's not

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much formally going on there.

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This poem was a trip
because I kept--

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I don't know.

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I prefer to write in lyric.

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I prefer to write--

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I don't know--
according to musicality,

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but it just felt like Descartes
himself was like, no, you

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have to represent my theory.

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[CHUCKLING]

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And I was like, no,
I don't want to--

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I don't like talky poems.

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I don't like discourse in poems.

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But it just kept
insisting on being there.

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And so this is an experiment
with a discourse in a poem

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but with my critique
happening inside it.

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In the Middle Ages, the New
World, like southern Africa,

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was convincingly physically
uninhabitable to Europeans.

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Upon encounters and alongside
Descartes' newly mathematizable

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world and Copernican theory,
the question of humanness

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became wrapped up
in the differences

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between man's embodiment of the
image of God and the New World

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inhabitants.

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The physical sciences and
new struggles over religious

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frameworks-- new heavens,
new earths, a moving planet--

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produced a reasonable
man located

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between the lower natures of
brutes and divine natures.

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Here, human others,
inside and outside Europe,

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were identifiable
enemies of Christ.

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Irrational and abnormal,
the creed specific,

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seemingly universal
conception of the human

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was a natural and
rational "godded man."