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What were you writing?
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I was writing a poem.
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What's it about?
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It's about people.
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That's a novel subject.
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You know, it's funny, it sort of looked
like a diary when I came in.
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I always write my poems in a diary.
It's one of my little idiosyncrasies.
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Afraid somebody's going to steal
your ideas and sell them to Hollywood?
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Perhaps. Would you like me
to read you some poetry?
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Sure, why not?
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This is my favorite poet.
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-"It was--"
-Who's the poet?
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The divine Edgar.
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Who's the divine Edgar. Edgar who?
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Edgar Allan Poe, of course.
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"It was night in the lonesome October
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"Of my most immemorial year"
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Notice how he emphasizes this word.
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"It was hard by the dim lake of Auber
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"In the misty mid region of Weir"
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You see, he takes a word like "dim"
in one line and twists it?
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And it comes back as "mid region of Weir."
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"Mid region," and twists it to "dim."
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That's pretty good, pretty clever.
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"Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her
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"And conquered her scruples and gloom
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"And we passed to the end of the vista
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"But were stopped by the door of a tomb
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"And I said, 'What is written, sweet sister?'
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"She replied, 'Ulalume, Ulalume."'
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Well, I think it's a little corny,
to tell you the truth.
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What do you object to?
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Well, the "vista-sister," that's like,
"Lolita-sweeter."
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That's very true.
That's a very acute observation.
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If you were in my class
I would give you an A plus.
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Tell me, was Mona Farlow annoyed
when you left her party last night?