WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:04.900 align:middle line:84% Recently, going around the country, meeting people, 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:11.960 align:middle line:90% talking to people, I become-- 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:17.090 align:middle line:84% it seems to me that we're in danger of losing affect. 00:00:17.090 --> 00:00:19.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.990 --> 00:00:28.250 align:middle line:84% People are actually almost ashamed of feeling 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:31.865 align:middle line:84% both in schools and in the outside world. 00:00:31.865 --> 00:00:35.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.170 --> 00:00:40.920 align:middle line:84% They have emotions from the older brain, the old brain 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.740 align:middle line:84% at the back of the head, which is filled with anger, and fear, 00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:47.820 align:middle line:90% and aggression. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:51.560 align:middle line:90% 00:00:51.560 --> 00:01:02.300 align:middle line:84% But the modern brain is in trouble, I think. 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:06.470 align:middle line:84% We always assume that various kinds of love 00:01:06.470 --> 00:01:08.450 align:middle line:90% are natural or genetic. 00:01:08.450 --> 00:01:12.540 align:middle line:90% 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:16.140 align:middle line:84% But it's not that easy, not that safe. 00:01:16.140 --> 00:01:20.100 align:middle line:84% A lot of scholars are saying that there 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:23.280 align:middle line:84% is no evidence in ancient Greek culture 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:28.140 align:middle line:84% or ancient Roman culture of romantic love. 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:34.380 align:middle line:84% There's a lot of sexual love, pride love, power love, 00:01:34.380 --> 00:01:39.300 align:middle line:84% but not what we think of this romantic love, which 00:01:39.300 --> 00:01:43.665 align:middle line:84% they say for Europe probably was invented about the 12th century. 00:01:43.665 --> 00:01:47.460 align:middle line:90% 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:50.310 align:middle line:84% So I'd like to read some poems about love, 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:54.090 align:middle line:90% various kinds of love. 00:01:54.090 --> 00:02:00.840 align:middle line:84% The first poem was actually about Don Giovanni, 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:04.740 align:middle line:84% after the opera is over, after the Commendatore reaches 00:02:04.740 --> 00:02:09.750 align:middle line:84% up and pulls him down into the underworld. 00:02:09.750 --> 00:02:19.090 align:middle line:84% And I imagine him going along a path in Italy, dirt path, 00:02:19.090 --> 00:02:23.080 align:middle line:84% and singing an aria to explain himself. 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:24.740 align:middle line:84% You know, because he was handsome. 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:25.550 align:middle line:90% He was rich. 00:02:25.550 --> 00:02:27.670 align:middle line:90% He was educated. 00:02:27.670 --> 00:02:33.385 align:middle line:84% And why did he spend all his time on women? 00:02:33.385 --> 00:02:40.010 align:middle line:90% 00:02:40.010 --> 00:02:41.720 align:middle line:84% This poem is not about that directly. 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:45.630 align:middle line:84% It's about a different kind of love. 00:02:45.630 --> 00:02:51.590 align:middle line:90% It's about a street person. 00:02:51.590 --> 00:02:55.790 align:middle line:84% A person was looking for a place to lie down in the woods, 00:02:55.790 --> 00:03:00.500 align:middle line:84% in the park, and he comes upon a murdered body. 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:03.200 align:middle line:90% 00:03:03.200 --> 00:03:06.620 align:middle line:84% I still haven't decided on where to put the microphone. 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:10.890 align:middle line:90% 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:11.775 align:middle line:90% It's called "Guilty." 00:03:11.775 --> 00:03:15.520 align:middle line:90% 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:25.150 align:middle line:84% The man certainly looked guilty, ugly, ragged, and not clean. 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:27.370 align:middle line:84% Not to mention, they're finding him there 00:03:27.370 --> 00:03:31.310 align:middle line:90% in the woods with her body. 00:03:31.310 --> 00:03:36.730 align:middle line:84% Neighbors told how he was always playing with dead squirrels, 00:03:36.730 --> 00:03:40.810 align:middle line:90% mangled dogs, even snakes. 00:03:40.810 --> 00:03:43.870 align:middle line:84% He said those were the only things that 00:03:43.870 --> 00:03:46.870 align:middle line:90% would allow him to get close. 00:03:46.870 --> 00:03:52.180 align:middle line:84% Look at me, the old man said with uncomplaining simplicity. 00:03:52.180 --> 00:03:57.280 align:middle line:84% I am already one of the dead among the dead. 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:02.140 align:middle line:84% It's hard to watch things humiliated the way death does 00:04:02.140 --> 00:04:07.600 align:middle line:84% it, possum smeared on the road, birds 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:11.830 align:middle line:90% with ants eating out their eyes. 00:04:11.830 --> 00:04:18.490 align:middle line:84% Even dying rats want privacy for their disgrace. 00:04:18.490 --> 00:04:22.360 align:middle line:84% It's true I washed the dirt from her face and the blood 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.620 align:middle line:90% off the body, combed her hair. 00:04:26.620 --> 00:04:30.580 align:middle line:84% I slept beside her, at her feet for two days the way 00:04:30.580 --> 00:04:32.980 align:middle line:90% my dog used to. 00:04:32.980 --> 00:04:33.910 align:middle line:90% I got the dress. 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:38.590 align:middle line:84% I got the dress back on the best I could. 00:04:38.590 --> 00:04:44.710 align:middle line:84% She looked so neglected, like garbage thrown in the weeds, 00:04:44.710 --> 00:04:50.470 align:middle line:84% like nobody cared because he had done that to her. 00:04:50.470 --> 00:04:56.380 align:middle line:84% I kept thinking about how long she is going to be alone now. 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:59.710 align:middle line:84% I knew the police would take pictures and put them 00:04:59.710 --> 00:05:05.230 align:middle line:84% in the papers naked and open so people eating breakfast 00:05:05.230 --> 00:05:08.590 align:middle line:90% could look at her. 00:05:08.590 --> 00:05:14.460 align:middle line:84% I wanted to give her spirit enough time to get ready. 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:15.000 align:middle line:90%