WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.720 --> 00:00:08.080 align:middle line:84% Well, there's another different kind of poem about wars. 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.760 align:middle line:84% In the beginning of that book, someone suggested I read 00:00:12.760 --> 00:00:20.290 align:middle line:84% and I want to read it with Edward. 00:00:20.290 --> 00:00:25.000 align:middle line:84% It's totally different kind of piece altogether. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:27.760 align:middle line:84% It's called The Judgment of Paris. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.300 align:middle line:84% And it refers, of course, to the judgment 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:37.715 align:middle line:84% of the legendary judgment on which the Trojan War eventually 00:00:37.715 --> 00:00:38.215 align:middle line:90% hinged. 00:00:38.215 --> 00:00:43.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:45.690 align:middle line:84% Long afterwards, the intelligent could 00:00:45.690 --> 00:00:49.530 align:middle line:84% deduce what had been offered and not recognized, 00:00:49.530 --> 00:00:52.650 align:middle line:84% and they suggest that bitterness should be confined to the fact 00:00:52.650 --> 00:00:56.190 align:middle line:84% that the gods chose for their arbiter a mind and character 00:00:56.190 --> 00:00:59.730 align:middle line:90% so ordinary albeit a prince. 00:00:59.730 --> 00:01:01.650 align:middle line:84% And brought up as a shepherd, a calling 00:01:01.650 --> 00:01:04.769 align:middle line:84% he must have liked where he had returned to it. 00:01:04.769 --> 00:01:10.020 align:middle line:84% When they stood before him, the three naked, feminine, 00:01:10.020 --> 00:01:13.050 align:middle line:84% deathless, and he realized that he 00:01:13.050 --> 00:01:16.620 align:middle line:84% was clothed in nothing but mortality, 00:01:16.620 --> 00:01:18.450 align:middle line:84% the strap of his quiver of arrows 00:01:18.450 --> 00:01:23.080 align:middle line:84% crossing between his nipples making it seem stranger. 00:01:23.080 --> 00:01:28.590 align:middle line:84% And he knew he must choose and on that day. 00:01:28.590 --> 00:01:31.440 align:middle line:84% The one with the gray eyes spoke first. 00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:33.600 align:middle line:84% And whatever she said he kept thinking he 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:38.670 align:middle line:84% remembered, but remembered it woven with confusion and fear. 00:01:38.670 --> 00:01:41.070 align:middle line:84% The two faces that he called father, 00:01:41.070 --> 00:01:43.620 align:middle line:84% the first sight of the palace were the brothers 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:46.080 align:middle line:84% were strangers and the dogs watched him 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:47.880 align:middle line:90% and refused to know him. 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:50.280 align:middle line:84% She made everything clear she was dazzling, 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.130 align:middle line:84% she offered it to him to have for his own, 00:01:53.130 --> 00:01:57.930 align:middle line:84% but what he saw was the scorn above her eyes. 00:01:57.930 --> 00:02:02.190 align:middle line:84% And her words of which he understood few all said to him 00:02:02.190 --> 00:02:06.750 align:middle line:84% take wisdom, take power, you will forget anyway. 00:02:06.750 --> 00:02:09.479 align:middle line:90% 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.940 align:middle line:84% The one with the dark eyes spoke and everything 00:02:11.940 --> 00:02:15.270 align:middle line:84% she said he imagined he had once wished for 00:02:15.270 --> 00:02:18.150 align:middle line:90% but in confusion and cowardice. 00:02:18.150 --> 00:02:22.170 align:middle line:84% The crown of his father, the crowns bowing to him, 00:02:22.170 --> 00:02:27.600 align:middle line:84% his name everywhere like grass, only he and the sea triumphant. 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:29.520 align:middle line:84% She made everything sound possible, 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:33.150 align:middle line:84% she was dazzling, she offered it to him to hold high, 00:02:33.150 --> 00:02:37.200 align:middle line:84% but what he saw was the cruelty around her mouth. 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:40.410 align:middle line:84% And her words of which he understood more all 00:02:40.410 --> 00:02:45.765 align:middle line:84% said to him take pride, take glory, you will suffer anyway. 00:02:45.765 --> 00:02:48.740 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.740 --> 00:02:50.720 align:middle line:84% The third one the color of whose eyes 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:54.620 align:middle line:84% later he could not remember spoke last and slowly, 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:57.260 align:middle line:90% and of desire, and it was his. 00:02:57.260 --> 00:03:00.710 align:middle line:84% Though up until then he had been happy with his river nymph, 00:03:00.710 --> 00:03:04.280 align:middle line:84% here was his mind filled utterly with one girl gathering 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:08.180 align:middle line:84% yellow flowers and no one like her. 00:03:08.180 --> 00:03:14.420 align:middle line:84% The words made everything seem present, almost present. 00:03:14.420 --> 00:03:20.720 align:middle line:84% They said to him take her, you will lose her anyway. 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:22.820 align:middle line:84% It was only when he reached out to the voice 00:03:22.820 --> 00:03:25.610 align:middle line:84% as though he could take the speaker herself 00:03:25.610 --> 00:03:29.570 align:middle line:84% that his hand filled with something to give, but to give 00:03:29.570 --> 00:03:32.180 align:middle line:90% to only one of the three. 00:03:32.180 --> 00:03:35.840 align:middle line:84% An apple as it is told, this court itself 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:42.770 align:middle line:84% in a single fruit, its skin already carved to the fairest. 00:03:42.770 --> 00:03:46.670 align:middle line:84% Then a mason working above the gates of Troy in the sunlight 00:03:46.670 --> 00:03:50.780 align:middle line:84% thought he felt the stone shiver. 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:53.090 align:middle line:84% In the quiver on Paris's back, the head 00:03:53.090 --> 00:03:58.070 align:middle line:84% of the arrow for Achilles heel smiled in its sleep. 00:03:58.070 --> 00:03:59.870 align:middle line:84% And Helen stepped from the palace 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:03.080 align:middle line:84% to gather as she would do every day in that season 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.330 align:middle line:84% from the Grove, the yellow ray flowers as 00:04:05.330 --> 00:04:11.020 align:middle line:84% tall as herself whose roots are said to dispel pain.