WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:02.370 align:middle line:90% Well, I'll read a-- 00:00:02.370 --> 00:00:06.850 align:middle line:90% 00:00:06.850 --> 00:00:11.560 align:middle line:84% this is-- I'll read another poem by somebody else. 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:16.870 align:middle line:84% If you can guess who this poet is, I don't know what. 00:00:16.870 --> 00:00:18.970 align:middle line:90% You can feel good. 00:00:18.970 --> 00:00:20.410 align:middle line:90% This is a similar sort of poem. 00:00:20.410 --> 00:00:23.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:23.830 --> 00:00:26.980 align:middle line:90% It's by-- it's by an old guy. 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:29.740 align:middle line:90% It's called "Recitative." 00:00:29.740 --> 00:00:32.770 align:middle line:84% If the muscle can feel repugnance, 00:00:32.770 --> 00:00:36.400 align:middle line:84% there is still a false move to be made. 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:38.950 align:middle line:84% If the mind can imagine tomorrow, 00:00:38.950 --> 00:00:43.120 align:middle line:84% there is still a defeat to remember. 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:49.270 align:middle line:84% As long as the self can say I, it is impossible not to rebel. 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:52.420 align:middle line:84% As long as there is an accidental virtue, 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:55.000 align:middle line:90% there is a necessary vice. 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:56.950 align:middle line:90% And the garden cannot exist. 00:00:56.950 --> 00:00:59.710 align:middle line:90% The miracle cannot occur. 00:00:59.710 --> 00:01:02.770 align:middle line:84% For the garden is the only place there is, 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:04.540 align:middle line:84% but you will not find it until you 00:01:04.540 --> 00:01:06.760 align:middle line:84% have looked for it everywhere and found 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.580 align:middle line:90% nowhere that is not a desert. 00:01:09.580 --> 00:01:12.200 align:middle line:84% The miracle is the only thing that happens, 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.150 align:middle line:84% but to you it will not be apparent until all events have 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:19.930 align:middle line:84% been studied and nothing happens that you cannot explain. 00:01:19.930 --> 00:01:22.150 align:middle line:84% And life is the destiny you are bound 00:01:22.150 --> 00:01:27.130 align:middle line:84% to refuse until you have consented to die. 00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:30.580 align:middle line:90% Therefore, see without looking. 00:01:30.580 --> 00:01:32.440 align:middle line:90% Hear without listening. 00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:34.930 align:middle line:90% Breathe without asking. 00:01:34.930 --> 00:01:37.630 align:middle line:84% The inevitable is what will seem to happen 00:01:37.630 --> 00:01:40.090 align:middle line:90% to you purely by chance. 00:01:40.090 --> 00:01:44.380 align:middle line:84% The real is what will strike you as really absurd. 00:01:44.380 --> 00:01:46.750 align:middle line:84% Unless you are certain you are dreaming, 00:01:46.750 --> 00:01:49.600 align:middle line:84% it is certainly a dream of your own. 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:53.350 align:middle line:84% Unless you exclaim there must be some mistake, 00:01:53.350 --> 00:01:54.235 align:middle line:90% you must be mistaken. 00:01:54.235 --> 00:01:56.940 align:middle line:90% 00:01:56.940 --> 00:01:58.920 align:middle line:90% Auden. 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.080 align:middle line:84% I think that the Budweiser people really stole the "why ask 00:02:04.080 --> 00:02:08.370 align:middle line:90% why" campaign from this poem. 00:02:08.370 --> 00:02:11.039 align:middle line:84% It's not a link that I can prove, 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.790 align:middle line:90% but he does a nice job with it. 00:02:14.790 --> 00:02:18.170 align:middle line:84% They cooked it down effectively I think.